The Body and the Blood: The Middle East's Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace
As the Middle East has gone up in flames, no image so captured the clash of cultures as did the siege at the Church of the Nativity, where Christian monks were trapped inside the fortress-like church, as Palestinian gunmen faced off against the Israeli military for five weeks. As Muslim and Jew battled for control, the Christians were caught in the crossfire: endangered and largely forgotten, victims of somebody else's war. In The Body and the Blood, Charles M. Sennott examines the dwindling Christian communities of the modern Middle East in search of answers to the following questions: Why is Christianity dying out in the land where it began? And what are the consequences, not only for the future of Christianity but for the Middle East itself? From Israel to Lebanon to Egypt to Jordan to the ancient cities of the West Bank, Sennott finds that the themes resonating today are the same as those that convulsed the region at the time of Christ. His frontline reporting is powerful and provocative, as he shines a new light on the Middle East.
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The Body and the Blood: The Middle East's Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace
As the Middle East has gone up in flames, no image so captured the clash of cultures as did the siege at the Church of the Nativity, where Christian monks were trapped inside the fortress-like church, as Palestinian gunmen faced off against the Israeli military for five weeks. As Muslim and Jew battled for control, the Christians were caught in the crossfire: endangered and largely forgotten, victims of somebody else's war. In The Body and the Blood, Charles M. Sennott examines the dwindling Christian communities of the modern Middle East in search of answers to the following questions: Why is Christianity dying out in the land where it began? And what are the consequences, not only for the future of Christianity but for the Middle East itself? From Israel to Lebanon to Egypt to Jordan to the ancient cities of the West Bank, Sennott finds that the themes resonating today are the same as those that convulsed the region at the time of Christ. His frontline reporting is powerful and provocative, as he shines a new light on the Middle East.
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The Body and the Blood: The Middle East's Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace

The Body and the Blood: The Middle East's Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace

by Charles M. Sennott
The Body and the Blood: The Middle East's Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace

The Body and the Blood: The Middle East's Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace

by Charles M. Sennott

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As the Middle East has gone up in flames, no image so captured the clash of cultures as did the siege at the Church of the Nativity, where Christian monks were trapped inside the fortress-like church, as Palestinian gunmen faced off against the Israeli military for five weeks. As Muslim and Jew battled for control, the Christians were caught in the crossfire: endangered and largely forgotten, victims of somebody else's war. In The Body and the Blood, Charles M. Sennott examines the dwindling Christian communities of the modern Middle East in search of answers to the following questions: Why is Christianity dying out in the land where it began? And what are the consequences, not only for the future of Christianity but for the Middle East itself? From Israel to Lebanon to Egypt to Jordan to the ancient cities of the West Bank, Sennott finds that the themes resonating today are the same as those that convulsed the region at the time of Christ. His frontline reporting is powerful and provocative, as he shines a new light on the Middle East.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781586481650
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 12/26/2002
Pages: 512
Sales rank: 1,032,939
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)
Lexile: 1290L (what's this?)

About the Author

Charles M. Sennott is the European Bureau Chief of the Boston Globe. Through sixteen years as a journalist he has covered the Persian Gulf War, the civil conflict in Northern Ireland, wars in Latin America and Afghanistan, the World Trade Center bombing, and the standoff at Waco. In 1998 George Magazine named Sennott one of the top ten journalists in America; Boston Magazine has named him the best reporter in Boston. A Massachusetts native, Sennott and his family live in London.

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Pete Hamill

This is a marvelous, surprising, heart-breaking book. Sennott combines history with hard reporting, a lucid eye with a sense of tragedy and gives us a fresh new way to look at the ongoing agony in the gardens of Israel and Palestine. That's a small journalistic miracle.

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