Back from a long personal recess with very little access to news sources, one could imagine that a first thought would be given to matters we have long presented here. But, alas, this caused a far greater shock than almost anything else:
THIS IS what a pogrom looks like: “The Coptic Hospital tried its best to deal with the sudden influx of casualties,’’ wrote Sarah Carr, a Cairo-based journalist and blogger, in her firsthand account of Sunday’s deadly attack on Christian protesters by the Egyptian military. “Its floors were sticky with blood and there was barely room to move among the wounded.’’ [The Boston Globe and multiple sources]
When we last asked for prayers for Christians in Syria, some of our words were harshly questioned by some readers. Is our skepticism of the fruits of "liberation" unwarranted?... Let us pray, now more than ever, for our Catholic and separated Christian brothers and sisters in the Middle East, under intolerable levels of persecution and bloodshed.
