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This is the fourth in a series of posts about J.D. Long-Garcia’s trip to the Middle East last year. He didn’t finish the series then, but is revisiting it now, a year after the articles were first published in the paper.
Finding shelter
First thing in the morning, after having, among other things, hummus for breakfast, [...]

It’s been exactly a year since we published our print coverage of The Church in the Middle East. With that in mind, I thought it would be appropriate to finish the incomplete “Diary from the Middle East.”
Meeting Iraqi refugees
My mother’s 3,000 “be careful” admonitions ring through my head as the driver whips through a Lebanese [...]

It’s been 10 months since J.D. shared the plight of Iraqi Christians with Catholic Sun readers. I must admit I haven’t heard much about them from Catholic or mainstream media since then.
Until this week, that is.
I heard during a K-Love news update this weekend that Iraq launched its first Christian radio station. While the station [...]

Every once in a while, a story falls through the cracks and doesn’t make it onto our Web site, www.catholicsun.org. There are many reasons for it, but mostly because we don’t have a full-time Web master. Instead, our editor, Rob DeFrancesco, shoulders upkeep and design responsibilities for the award-winning site. He has to. There just [...]

I drove by a Lutheran church yesterday morning when the bells were chiming this classic Christmas hymn. Then I ran across an excerpt in the St. Gregory parish bulletin about the current state of Bethlehem.
The article was originally published in the Sept. 1, 2008 issue of America, a weekly Jesuit Catholic magazine. The full version is only [...]