Focus

• “Caliphate” expels Christians from the Nineveh Plain

  Aug 14, 2014

  After capturing Mosul, jihadist Islamic State militants have now also taken hold of the villages in the Nineveh Plain which had been historical strongholds of local Christian communities in ancient Mesopotamia since time immemorial.

  

• Food For Thought

  Aug 08, 2014

  During our pilgrimage on this earth, we'll all face great illness, either our own or that of family or friends.

  
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  Finding Christ while caring for the sick

  Aug 08, 2014

  Over the last couple of years, I’ve watched small episodes of illness, recovery and eventually death, as the life of a Poor Clare nun came to an end.

  
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  ThoughtEmbracing the sick and embracing Christ

  Aug 08, 2014

  Jesus was a healer. The Gospels leave no doubt about that. People came to him with the hope that he might touch them and end their suffering. Both Mark and Luke tell the story of the woman who was cured simply by touching the hem of Jesus’garment.

  
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  Searching for the right fuel

  Aug 07, 2014

  Sometimes everything can seem right on the surface while, deep down, nothing is right at all. We see this, for example, in the famous parable in the gospels about the Prodigal Son and his Older Brother.

  

• Churches must take a share of the blame for World War 1

  Aug 07, 2014

  Church services are being held all over Europe to commemorate the outbreak of the First World War.

  
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  Suicide – Reclaiming the Memory of our Loved One

  Jul 31, 2014

  Each year I write a column on suicide. Mostly I say the same thing over and over again, simply because it needs to be said.

  

• Food For Thought

  Jul 24, 2014

  Like Europe, the United States has a difficult time dealing with the complexity of immigration, at the government level as well as private citizens who come into contact with people fleeing harsh economic situations, wars or famine.

  

• What we can learn from our biblical ancestors as migrants

  Jul 24, 2014

  The first three definitions my dictionary lists to describe an immigrant are: foreigner, outsider, alien.

  

• Our duty to welcome the stranger among us

  Jul 24, 2014

  The first time Pope Francis travelled outside of Rome during his papacy, he visited the island of Lampedusa.