ISIS wants to erase the Middle East’s Christian history — and make a few bucks along the
ISIS wants to erase the Middle East’s Christian history — and make a few bucks along the wayvia PRI’s ‘The World’“Physically ill,” is how Michael Peppard says he felt when he looked at the images of the destruction of St. Elijah’s. “The tragedy that has been taking place among civilians in Syria and Iraq is paralleled now by what we’re seeing with the destruction of cultural heritage,” says Peppard, an associate professor in the department of theology at Fordham University. Listen to/read the story here.Peppard is the author of “The World’s Oldest Church,” which is “an ambitious attempt to combine theology and art history to tell a new story about the oldest known house of Christian worship.” Read more on the book here. -- source link
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