Jonathan Frerichs

Jonathan Frerichs is communications director for Lutheran World Relief.

Articles by Jonathan Frerichs

Features

Shock and aid

Letter from Baghdad
May 17, 2003 by Jonathan Frerichs
The air is thick with politics. Reportedly some 60 different political groups have emerged here since the end of the war. Driving around Baghdad, one suddenly comes upon a building surrounded by men with guns. Groups are staking their postwar claims to the real estate. In one case, the soldiers turned out to be members of a Kurdish party.
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Whose land is it?

Apartheid in Israel/Palestine
Jul 17, 2002 by Jonathan Frerichs
On the long climb to Jerusalem I notice two kinds of trucks. One kind is carrying huge battle tanks still muddy from combat in the West Bank. The other is carrying tents sent from America for Palestinians who have lost their homes in the fighting.
Books

Infections and Inequalities, by Paul Farmer

Nov 21, 2001 reviewed by Jonathan Frerichs

What causes disease? Is it germs? Or people? This book about the global plagues of AIDS and tuberculosis says that, in the end, people do. For the most part it is society, not microbes, that determines where infectious diseases will break out and how well those infected will fare.

Features

White bull of peace

sudan’s forgotten conflict

Oct 10, 2001 by Jonathan Frerichs

As part of a campaign to stop one of the world’s longest wars, peace coordinator Telar Deng begins and ends peace conferences by sacrificing a white bull. The Sudanese traditional ritual was recently included in the seventh such conference brokered by Deng and the New Sudan Council of Churches (NSCC).

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