Eight days in the Holy Land can fly past when you are on an immersion tour with the Catholic Near East Welfare Association Pontifical Mission to the Holy Land I hope to be sharing some of the stories and perspectives I heard from a part of the community of people in the Middle East that have been o

As conditions for Chaldean Catholics in Iraq deteriorate and political unrest threatens Christians in Lebanon the Kingdom of Jordan remains a small oasis of relative calm for the Middle East rsquo s Christian minority Christians here remain confident of their acceptance by the larger Muslim societ

Newt Gingrich managed to get his mug in the news this week by calling the President a con man and charging that Obama s Kenyan anti-Western roots were showing in his efforts to respond to the world s worst recession since well the last worse recession Gingrich found much to admire and bloviate

Religious leaders around the country are stepping forward to denounce acts of anti-Islamic bigotry emerging in the wake of the heated debate around the Park51 Islamic center proposed for lower Manhattan In a joint statement released at the National Press Club September 7 national religious figures

Faith in Public Life hosted an unusual teleconference September 1 bringing together the odd couple of U S religious leaders and international relations and security experts to discuss the increasingly strident national debate if it can be so characterized over the Park51 Cordoba Initiative That

On the eve before talks between Israel and Palestinian leaders in Washington Hamas does its level best to torpedo whatever progress might have been achieved by murdering four civilians including two women one of whom was pregnant Worse Hamas threatens more attacks Haaretz reports The statemen

A graphic look at the Ground Zero Mosque controversy courtesy of Mark A Schmidt

shortest one act play Belgian s Cardinal Godfried Danneels met with a victim of sexual assault now 42 and his uncle-perpetrator Bishop Robert Vangheluwe in early April The bishops spoke freely because they did not understand the conversation was being taped and would not be kept secret as

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