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Written Friday evening, my last in Erbil (for now): I don’t know when you had a moment or an experience that simply changed you or how you experience the world.
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I am spending the night in one of the most peaceful places I have ever been. It’s a monastery located atop Mount Alfalf, about 35 kilometers from Mosul and originally
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Just got back from the final championship game of the Mar Elia volleyball tournament. Great fun to watch some really pretty outstanding volleyball, and be mercilessly bugged by children who
I really needed to spend some time alone in my hotel room this Saturday morning, ignoring the phone and the quiet knocks at my door from my buddy Ramadan who
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Good morning my friends! Some night last night. Went to a party at an Armenian club and met Wahe’s (my friend, translator and driver) extended family: his son and his
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Father Douglas Bazi, my friend and our partner in Iraq, and, I guess, some Iraqi hitchhiker he picked up who’s badly in need of a shave. I find the faithfulness,
Friends, it’s really hard to know where to start. I’ve just had one of the most amazing days of a, shall we say, not uneventful life. I woke to a
I had a warm welcome from Fr. Douglas at the airport last night. Just met Marek Hudema, a journalist from the Czech Republic writing about Erbil, in my hotel lobby
In Frankfurt- Turkish Muslim lady next to me on the plane last night gave a 20 Euro donation to SWIC! World Peace Now! CB #StandWithIraqiChristians Hustling to the airport. Had
Dear friends and supporters of SWIC, There is a very important point I have been needing to make that the sheer volume of activity has prevented me from expressing—for which