The only Christians who remain in Iraq are those too old or too poor to attempt to escape many of the Iraqi refugees I interviewed last September in Amman Jordan assured me They said after years of threats kidnappings bombings and murders they would never return had no reason to return would n

One of the gallants who put the now infamous beat-down on that askin-fer-it professional agitator from moveon org has been outed by other members of the Tea Party apparently appalled by his liberal use of force in freely expressing his concern for Rand Paul s personal safety The blogosphere is poi

It has been on the back of many minds since the Jan 12 earthquake took perhaps a quarter of a million lives and left about 2 million Haitians homeless when would the next crisis begin this one emerging from the dangerous conditions in temporary tent cities now home to thousands of dislocated fami

The latest round of document releases from WikiLeaks nbsp regarding the Iraq War will be getting a lot of attention through the weekend rightly so It s too bad that will probably mean a report from California s Bay Citizen will probably be overlooked hat tip to Truthout A good portion of the nb

Today is Blog Action Day 2010 the action global bloggers are invited to take is to promote awareness of global water issues its scarcity its contamination its political and strategic significance in pressure points like Darfur and at the Israeli-Palestinian stand off According to the U N a

Has David Letterman been hanging out with Bread for the World s David Beckmann Maybe the Daves were switched by mischievous CBS executives Who can say but after apparently going on a lengthy rant about one of the Seven Deadlies that is particularly popular within U S borders while poor Rachel Ra

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