Amman, Jordan – “GET A JOB!” These three words are very familiar to activists bearing signs calling for an end to war,…
(Amman, Jordan — August 6, 2007) At a small, informal school in the basement of a church in Amman, many strings of…
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This past Tuesday, in Fairbanks, Alaska, nine people entered the office of Senator Ted Stevens to deliver their “emphatic request” that the…
Earlier this week, I received a joyful phone call from Baghdad. Members of a family I’ve known since 1996 announced that one…
Sr. Rose Leo, the principal of the grade school I attended, was also a talented musician who could have had a career…
An Iraqi friend whom I’ve known for ten years looked worn and very weary yesterday when he came to visit me in…
Barely a day goes by when I don’t learn a new report about a beleaguered Iraqi refugee, or of an entire family,…
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butcheredthere was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered.…
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