St. Peter Damascene
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The passions are: harshness, trickery, malice, perversity, mindlessness, licentiousness, enticement, dullness, lack of understanding...
Kathy Gannon
It was barely 4 a.m. when 19-year-old Rinkal Kumari disappeared from her home in a small village in Pakistan's southern Sindh province. When her parents awoke they found only her slippers and a scarf outside the door. A few hours later her father got a call telling him his daughter, a Hindu, had converted to Islam to marry a Muslim boy.
Metropolitan Philip (Saliba)
Greetings and blessings to you in the spirit of this Holy and Great Lent. I am certain that you have been following the tragic events in Syria from where many of us have originated. Besides our cultural and historical roots which are planted in Syria, Syria has a great spiritual significance to all of us and all Christians. Damascus is considered the most ancient city in the world. Syria and the entire Fertile Crescent gave the world its first known civilization.
Amira Hass
Israel's envoy to U.S. writes that Christians are morethan elsewhere in Mideast. Too bad the Christians disagree.
“The bishop told me, ‘You have seen the needs here — now go tell them in the lower 48.’” Initially, Mary Ann worked mostly through her parish in Wichita, raising funds by selling goods at the parish festival and by giving presentations locally.
