Strangers in their own Holy Land
The embattled Christian communities in Bethlehem and Nazareth
Syria Isn’t Bosnia: Don’t Arm the Rebels
Assisting the Free Syria Army to overthrow Assad by force will only lead to further religious persecution, torture and death
Bahrain: Women Drivers Welcome Here
'Hadija laughs as she describes how Saudi women, once over the bridge connecting Saudi Arabia to Bahrain, elbow their husbands out of the driving seat to take command of the wheel.'
United States: The Path to Rome via San Francisco
‘In the 1950s, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene wrote triumphalist Catholic novels with miracles as part of the story — Brideshead Revisited, The End of the Affair. They were bestsellers. Since Vatican II,
Paris: Prisoner of the Barbarians
‘In February 2007, a naked, emaciated, mutilated, charred and stabbed man is discovered near railway tracks in the Parisian suburb of Sainte Geneviève-des-Bois. He is taken to hospital where he is pronounced dead
Hunting the Lynx with the Old Believers
'The first who came to Tuva had come in search of Belovode: a mythical Russian utopia that peasants believed existed out in Siberia'
Cold Comfort On Global Warming
'The main action in Warsaw was to agree on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, but the disagreements are longstanding, fundamental and intractable'
Obama’s Secrets Start Unravelling
'When the leaders of China and the US met in June, one was accused of serious civil liberties violations, the seizure of journalists' phone and email records and the use of state
Nations United in Hypocrisy
The UN general general assembly displays the limits of multilateralism as the debate on the Palestinians' observer status showed
Siberia: In Search of the Gulag
‘When I finally reached Magadan, I hunted for days for a survivor. "I'm sorry, they are all dead," was the refrain. With male life-expectancy in Russia a mere 58, I should not