Nov 18, 2013, Nebraskans for Peace

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Nov 19, 2013, Denver Catholic Register While a Carmelite monk from Colorado is barricaded in a Syrian monastery because of ongoing violence, his spiritual leader is traveling the United States and pleading for reconciliation over war. Mother Superior Agnes Mariam de la Croix, a Lebanese nun who opened St. James …

What is Really Happening in Syria Today? Mother Agnes-Mariam of The Cross Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross is Mother Superior at the Monastery and Convent of St. James in Qara, Syria. Much of the population in the towns and villages around the monastery have fled and been made refugees. Sheleft …

Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross, Mother Superior of the Monastery of St. James the Mutilated, a Melkite Greek Catholic monastery in central Syria, spoke about the importance of bringing peace to Syria and surrounding nations  Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, during a news conference in downtown Lincoln. Nov 18, 2013, Journal …

Nov 18, 2013, The Daily Nebraskan Mainstream media has depicted the crisis in Syria as a black and white cinema. At a talk in downtown Lincoln Monday morning, Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross said that isn’t the case. Mother Agnes is Mother Superior of the monastery of St. James the …

Nov 18, 2013, ABC 8 KLKN TV For months, headlines have swarmed around the crisis in Syria. Some are calling it a civil war, others say it’s an uprising. Mother Agnes Mariam is Mother Superior at a convent in Qara, Syria. To her, the crisis has been manipulated by foreign …

Nov 18, 2013, Jonathan Cook One of the problems for the left is the desperate need of too many of its best and brightest to maintain legitimacy “in the mainstream”. In practice, those who could be advancing radical new agendas or ways of thinking to deal with the catastrophic problems …

Nov 14, 2013, Consortium News After the Aug. 21 chemical weapons incident in Syria, a number of senior U.S. intelligence analysts disagreed with the Obama administration’s rush to judgment blaming the Syrian government, but their dissent on this question of war or peace was concealed from the American people. The …

Nov 12, 2013, Ken Stone: As expected, Prime Minister Harper wholly endorsed President Obama’s call to punish the Syrian government for its alleged use of chemical weapons on August 21, 2013.1 Harper did, however, decline to join the tiny coalition of countries willing to join a US-led air strike on …