by Robert Parham | Feb 24, 2005 | Opinion
Two days after the tsunami struck Sri Lanka, a seven-person medical team from Hungarian Baptist Aid arrived on the tear-shaped island to the southeast of India, starting work in the capital of Colombo and then moving south. “When I got to Galle, it was...
by Robert Parham | Feb 21, 2005 | Opinion
PERALIYA, Sri Lanka—The international police agency Interpol dug up a mass grave here, looking for Europeans killed when the Dec. 26 tsunami washed a train off its tracks. They found two, among 2,000 bodies bulldozed into a huge hole, identifying them by their larger...
by Robert Parham | Feb 18, 2005 | Opinion
BANGKOK, Thailand–Paul Montacute’s first airplane ride was to the 1963 Baptist World Alliance youth conference in Beirut. It was the first of many. Forty-plus years later, he travels the globe as the director for the BWA’s hunger and relief arm,...
by Robert Parham | Feb 16, 2005 | Opinion
Seven weeks after the tsunami disaster that swept from Indonesia to Somalia, newspaper headlines and TV news stories have fallen off as nations continue to find corpses and victims cope with lost livelihoods. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that 1,400 more bodies...
by Robert Parham | Feb 3, 2005 | Opinion
Barry Lynn unfairly lumped James Dobson and Jim Wallis together this week, asserting that both were pressuring politicians to make public policy decisions based on the Bible. “Religious advocates of all stripes are applying all kinds of pressure on politicians...
