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Shock and aid

THE AIR IS THICK with politics. Reportedly some 60 different political groups have emerged here since the end of the war. Driving around Baghdad,...
Christian Century, 05/17/03 by Jonathan Frerichs · More from publication
Whose land is it? Apartheid in Israel/Palestine

ON THE LONG CLIMB to Jerusalem I notice two kinds of trucks. One kind is carrying huge battle tanks still muddy from combat in the West Bank. The...
Christian Century, 07/17/02 by Jonathan Frerichs · More from publication
Cautious hope

Today is better than yesterday for Afghan families receiving Lutheran aid `We stayed home during the bombing' Food shipments in Afghanistan...
Lutheran, The, 04/01/02 by Frerichs, Jonathan · More from publication
Infections and inequalities: The Modern Plagues

Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. By Paul Farmer. University of California Press, 389 pp., $17. 95 paperback. Infections and...
Christian Century, 11/07/01 by Jonathan Frerichs · More from publication
White bull of peace

AS PART OF a campaign to stop one of the world's longest wars, peace coordinator Telar Deng begins and ends peace conferences by sacrificing a...
Christian Century, 10/10/01 by Jonathan Frerichs · More from publication
Finding food at school

At a Lutheran-supported school in a Nairobi shantytown,first-graders serve a meal of porridge, made from grain donated for the school's 700...
Lutheran, The, 09/01/01 by Frerichs, Jonathan · More from publication

Women who fight back

" Very dynamic,very motivated," says the president of Deggo, describing members of her grass-roots women's group,one of many that fight the spread...
Lutheran, The, 09/01/01 by Frerichs, Jonathan · More from publication
Simple gifts

Lutheran World Relief donations fight off winter's chill in former Soviet republics Where will this quilt go? Who will get this school kit? I...
Lutheran, The, 01/01/01 by Frerichs, Jonathan · More from publication
This Our Exile: A Spiritual Journey with the Refugees of East Africa

This Our Exile: A Spiritual Journey with the Refugees of East Africa. This Our Exile: A Spiritual Journey with the Refugees of East Africa. By...
Christian Century, 06/30/99 by Jonathan Frerichs · More from publication
Behind the curtain: the North Korean famine

A representative from Lutheran World Relief describes his trip to North Korea. Members of relief organizations are frustrated in their attempts to...
Christian Century, 02/25/98 by Jonathan Frerichs · More from publication

Shock and aid