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December 2013

Middle East

Syria’s minority Christians under threat from extremist Muslim rebels

BY REESE ERLICH DAMASCUS — The Arab Spring has turned very wintry for many Christians in the Middle...

Dec 25, 2013
World

Hans Küng, influential Catholic dissident, confronts his own mortality

In November 2012, on assignment for GlobalPost and National Catholic Reporter, I traveled to the University of Tübingen...

Dec 19, 2013
Middle East

Assad’s divide-and-conquer strategy proving effective against Syrian rebels

BY REESE ERLICH DAMASCUS — Syria’s US-backed rebels are steadily losing ground to extremist Islamist groups, dealing a...

Dec 18, 2013
Middle East

It’s Salafist vs. Salafist in Syria’s civil war

BY REESE ERLICH DAMASCUS — Some extremist Sunni clerics help foment sectarian violence in Syria, one indication of...

Dec 18, 2013
World

How Pope Francis took 2013 by storm

There is Pope Francis with angelic wings, smiling beatifically on the cover of the New Yorker magazine wherein...

Dec 13, 2013

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