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“Pray for us:” Bishop Mouneer Anis

April 11, 2017 No Comments

The Most Revd Mouneer Anis, the Anglican Bishop in Egypt, has published the following statement in the aftermath of Palm Sunday’s deadly attack on Coptic churches in that country. Via the Anglican Communion News Service:

Dear Friends,

Thank you for all your messages of condolences and your prayers.

Palm Sunday this year was a sad one. As I was going to celebrate Palm Sunday at All Saints Cathedral, Cairo, I heard the news of the explosions at Mar Girgis [St George’s] Coptic Orthodox […]

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Sikh man shot, wounded in hate crime in Kent, Washington

March 6, 2017 1 Comment

On Friday evening, Deep Rai was working on his car in his driveway in Kent, a suburb of Seattle, when he was approached by a stranger. The stranger spoke to him aggressively, telling Rai to “go back to his country,” before shoving him to the ground and shooting him in the arm.

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Speaking to the Soul: The Judas Kiss

June 14, 2016 7 Comments

I thought of a hundred families and and hundreds more this week mourning the pain, suffering, and loss of their loved ones while the familiar excuses of powerlessness to stop the chain of death and destruction ooze up from every direction. And tears welled in my eyes all over again.

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Pakistan: where every heart is broken

March 31, 2016 1 Comment

The prime minister of Pakistan has said that the heart of every Pakistani was broken and that the whole nation was in the state of grief and sorrow during a televised address to the nation following the horrific Easter Day bomb attack in Lahorethat left at least 72 people dead and more than 300 injured.

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