The Vicar of Baghdad

Fighting for Peace in the Middle East

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Taschenbuch, 192 Seiten

Sprache: English

Veröffentlicht von Monarch Books.

ISBN:
978-0-8254-6284-9
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OCLC-Nummer:
290483862

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As the vicar of St. George's Church in Baghdad, the only Episcopalian church in Iraq, Canon Andrew White has worked with those at the highest levels of authority in Iraq, for both Westerners and Iraqis. Now, as political and military solutions continue to fail, Andrew offers a different approach to making peace in the Middle East-speaking as a man of faith to men of faith. In The Vicar of Baghdad he tells the story of his work to create peace through God.

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The book only really comes alive when he is talking about St. Georges church. What has happened there is amazing and the writing is warm, with lots of personal detail. In the rest of the book there are too many things that cannot be spoken about because it would put people in danger if it were. It becomes a rather dry lists of people, meetings and journeys. The danger of the work is always present, and there is no doubting its importance to the future of the country. From the readers perspective there are some lovely word pictures. A group of Muslims from different traditions in a bus singing - but it is what is sung that is important. At times like that you get a real feel for the atmosphere.

Worth a read, but stick with it' the later chapters are better than the early ones.