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The Blood of John Paul II or the Blood of Jesus?

Mathew Bartlett: Posted on Monday, January 17, 2011 10:07 AM

Today in the Washington Post, MONIKA SCISLOWSKA reports that shortly before his death, some blood from the body of Pope John Paul II was collected in a vial and will be encased in crsytalbefore eventually being displayed as a religious relic in a Polish church. (Full storyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/17/AR2011011701299.html)

It is never my wish to offend people from any religious community, but personally I find the idea of keeping a vial of a dead man's blood to be in completely bad taste.

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Are Iraqi Christians to Flee the Country?

Mathew Bartlett: Posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 6:33 AM

Following the attack on Sayidat al-Nejat church in Baghdad last week, Athanasios Dawood, Archbishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church, has called upon all Christians to flee Iraq.

According to a CNN report (Bharati Naik, 8 Nov 2010), Father Saad Sirop Hanna of Saint Joseph's Church Baghdad commented: "I can understand this bishop. I agree with him from a certain point of view, but I disagree with him from another."

Persecution is a reality which has been faced by Christians throughout the last two thousand years, and today more believers than ever before are facing harassment and even violence as a result of their faith.

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