The latest atrocity affecting the Christian community in Baghdad is a further reminder of the precarious position of Christians in the Middle East - something I posted about last Saturday.
There are some trenchant comments from Fr Hunwicke here about Western attitudes to the situation. There is also sorrowful and prayerful counsel from Fr Blake here.
The need to maintain awareness of our fellow Christians in the homeland of the faith in the face of relative disinterest is important. So is practical aid and the need to pray for people and places, Churches and Christians. I feel I ought to be doing something about the situation, and those are all ways, but somehow I feelmore should be done. That is not to discount the power of prayer, but its very invisibility makes it so often appear not to yield results.
In temporal terms I suppose I'm saying "Someone ought to do something." But who, and what?
The Monastery Church of the Assumption in Bominaco, Italy
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Following up on yesterday’s post about the Oratory of St Pellegrino in
Bominaco, Italy, here are some pictures of the main church of the monastery
to which...
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