DEDICATED FIGHTERS AGAINST HIVIAIDS in the southern African country of Namibia are standing on the threshold of a miracle.
To the fore among them is Maryknoll Father Richard Bauer (left, with young Namibians) who combats AIDS in the nation’s capital, Windhoek. “The history has been terrible, with HIV prevalence climbing through the years to peak at 22 percent,” he says. “That’s nearly a quarter of the entire population.” Continue reading “New Start in Namibia” »
[First published in “MARYKNOLL” magazine.]
AS A JOURNALIST REPORTING on the long struggle to defeat apartheid in South Africa, I frequently interviewed Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the 1980s and 1990s.
During one of those interviews, not long after Nelson Mandela had been released from prison … Continue reading “Put in my Place, While Interviewing Desmond Tutu” »
SOUTH AFRICA‘s Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu looked momentarily disturbed at my question: “President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has called you an embittered, evil little bishop. What’s your reaction?”
Then his signature flash of a smile quickly returned. “Oh, I learned in the apartheid days to develop the skin of a rhinoceros,” he said.
[First published in AM New York newspaper]
Al-JAZEERA, THE TV NEWS SERVICE CONDEMNED by some as an Al Qaeda mouthpiece but welcomed by others as an overdue revolution in Arab communications, will soon start a global channel in English.
And it’s already setting up shop in the media capital of the English-speaking world, New York City. Continue reading “Arab TV’s Take on the World” »
WITH THIS WEEK‘s court-martial of Specialist Sabrina Harman, the press is once more dredging through dishonor among soldiers. By contrast, honor is soon also to be reported, marking a whole other side to the disgusting prisoner-abuse scandal in Iraq.
