March 5th, 20210ROME – Pope Francis left Rome on Friday to start a four-day trip to Iraq, his most risky foreign trip since his election in 2012 and the first visit by a pontiff to the country.
An Alitalia airplane carrying the 84-year-old pope, his entourage, a security detail and about 75 journalists left Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport for the...
December 12th, 20170JERUSALEM — Less than an hour after President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Palestinians protested by turning off the lights on the Christmas tree outside Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
It was a timely reminder that while headlines focused on Islamist calls for...
November 17th, 20170NAZARETH—“You see them, you love them; they are human like you,” Shady Srour, writer and director of the film “Holy Air”, said about the movie’s two main characters, Adam and Lamia. “They are modern, they want to live.”
Srour is a self-described minority inside a minority. He grew up an Arab living in Nazareth.
He...
March 4th, 20170
DEARBORN— By providing an ample space and an inviting atmosphere, Common Grace Coffee Company owner Dale Tremblay-Dulong wanted to see a space where common grounds are just as special and important as its specialty coffee.
The name of the enterprise, Common Grace, “comes from a doctrine that states that God gives undeserved...
