Joan Lewis, EWTN correspondent, reporting from Iraq

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I posted this a few days ago in the News section of the Forum. Apparently the link I provided wasn’t sufficient for what is required to post in that section. I was hoping in that section other non ECs would also see it. Hopefully most of those reading here in the EC section are well aware of the plight of our Church in Iraq. Even so, we can all learn more, and interesting to read from someone who apparently was really not aware of the plight before she got there.

Joan Lewis, EWTN correspondent, reporting from Iraq
Glory to Jesus Christ!

Joan Lewis, EWTN’s Rome correspondent, is reporting from Iraq. I’ve only heard short segments on EWTN radio and haven’t had time to read her blog yet. She’s gone apparently in response to a letter from the Bishops there asking western reporters to come see the situation. You can see in the right margin that her reporting apparently began 2/15 in Beirut.

Her reports from Rome are always very informative and interesting. I think Grace has brought her to Iraq, apparently also Lebanon. She’s usually very articulate and economical with her reporting but she sounded almost dazed in the live snippets I’ve hear. She kept saying how changed she is by what she is experiencing. She mentioned the daily killings and that two female students were stopped the previous day, asked to show their identify cards, which said they were Christians, and they were then shot.

May her reporting, and all that she will bring back to her life in Rome on a daily basis, bring more attention to and response to the plight of our sisters and brothers in the Church suffering in Iraq.