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Editor: Maria Laura Conte
Forefront
In this issue the Oasis Newsletter looks East, West and South, going to the bottom of current news:
 - Iraq
What are the roots of anti-Christian persecution in Iraq? Erika Hunter, an expert in the history of Mideast minorities at London’s prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies, provides some answers in an interview with Maria Laura Conte.
- India, wounded by terrorism, and the special case of Kerala
The foretaste of a report from Kerala, a State in south-western India, which will be published in the next issue of the Oasis journal, signed by Luca Fiore.
- The United States at the beginning of a new era
Religions in the United States, their place in the public sphere and their interrelationships are the topics developed in an interview with Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, by Andrea Pin and in a piece by Neil Sloan, secretary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, on the recent meeting promoted by the Midwest Muslim-Catholic Dialogue, with local representatives of the Catholic Church and Muslim associations.
- Sudan
Last month, the Bishops’ Conference of Sudan, which met in the southern part of the country for the first time since the end of the civil war, expressed fears and responsibilities attributable to the fragility of the existing peace. From Khartoum Fr Pacifico Salvatore, Combonian Provincial, talks about it.
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