Headlines - Post Christmas Edition

I've been mostly living in a "cave" the last several days, away from the city, and not following the news. So I took some time this morning to catch up on headlines and articles from around the world. The following is a sampling of what caught my attention today and moved my heart to prayer:

Wolf Captured Near Tourist Portion of Great Wall

Child Maid Trafficking Spreads From Africa to US

Israel Bombs Gaza in "All Out War"

Pope Laments Global Instability

Children Killed in Afghan Attack (some Canadian soldiers were also killed)

Tear Gas Kills 5 in Peru Club

Peru Christmas Baby Named Jesus

Aceh's Victims of Nature and War

Israel Stikes Key Hamas Offices

A Year After Bhutto: Tears and Troop Movements

Ugandan LRA in "church massacre"

Israel Pounds Hamas Targets in Third Day of Offensive

And, just because any article with the line "When Canadians start acting crazy, America should fit itself for a giant straitjacket." makes me smile, The Year of Living Stupidly

Headlines

A Quarrelsome lot these Christians

British Tourist Unearths Treasure

Pope to Visit Holy Land in May

Headline - Tuesday.

Israel Buries Mumbai Dead.

Caught by this...

Just read these articles...

Child Murder Claim Shocks Israeli's

Israel river body is missing rose

oddly caught and moved by this. this tiny blue-eyed girl named Rose.

praying.

A Prayer

I'm not entirely sure that I'm okay with the fact that a reporter pulled the written prayer of Barack Obama from the spot where he left it at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, but there is a simple beauty in the in prayer that I appreciate deeply.

You can see it here.

An Old Link

I was reading some old blog posts this morning, and came across a link to a story my friend Debbie put up from her trip to Israel in 2006.

Have you ever heard of "Jerusalem Syndrome?" I hadn't either.

But I did have to laugh at Deb's story of her first hand encounter with it!