BY REESE ERLICH DAMASCUS — The Arab Spring has turned very wintry for many Christians in the Middle...
Dec 25, 2013
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
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
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
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