This has been a particularly brutal month around the world with major terrorist attacks shattering lives in numerous cities from Ankara to Brussels. In Lahore, Pakistan: On Easter Sunday, a crisp spring day, some of the city’s Christian population mingled with their Muslim neighbors, celebrating in a neighborhood park — taking their kids on rides… Read More A Most Violent Month: Terrorism Rocks the World
via Vatican Radio: “Learning of the attacks in Brussels, which have affected many people, His Holiness Pope Francis entrusts to God’s mercy those who died and he prays for those who have lost relatives. He expresses his deepest sympathy to the injured and their families, and all those who contribute to relief efforts, asking the… Read More Pope Sends Condolences Following Belgium Terrorist Attacks
After nearly five years of civil war, precipitated by Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters, and perhaps 470,000 deaths, the US House of Representatives passed a war crimes resolution aimed at holding Assad and his allies accountable for their war crimes, as well as a genocide resolution that identifies Christians as victims of ISIS’s… Read More In Response to the Crimes of Assad and ISIS, the House Passes Genocide and War Crimes Resolutions
Pope Francis: “Terrorism is evil. It emanates from evil. I ask, please, no more terrorism. It is a dead-end street.”
The week was full of articles detailing horrible acts of violence, brutality, and terrorism around the world. Suicide Attack at Church in Pakistan Kills Dozens by NY Times: “A suicide attack on a historic Christian church in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 78 people on Sunday in one of the deadliest attacks on the Christian… Read More Around the Web: A Week of Violence and Brutality Around the World
Mike Rogers is a better person than me. I’ve never met him before, and if I was to trip over him I still wouldn’t have a clue who he was. Still, when I read his open letter to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers, I couldn’t help but contrast his thoughts with… Read More A Marathon of Emotions
Sometimes events happen that are so beyond our scope of understanding that we become frozen. At work, all we can do is stream a live-feed of the events unfolding, ignoring work that should be done. We text and call friends living in the area of the incidents just to feel connected, to feel as though… Read More When it’s Hardest to Pray, we Must
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