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Correspondence
From the USA Pope’s trip: the truth about the human person always at the centre
Marco Bardazzi
What is left from Pope Benedict XVI's April trip to the United States? What impact did it have on the cultural and social debates in American society on issues like human rights, intercultural encounters, or secularism? Journalist Marco Bardazzi, who followed the Pope in his US journey, tells us about it from Washington, focusing on some of the signs the Pope left on the way.
From Kuwait : When and why to build churches in the Middle-East and mosques in the West
The interview that H. E. Msgr. Camillo Ballin gave to the BBC. In it he answers in clear terms questions, often heard in Western media, about the issue of building churches in Arabia and mosques in the West, which gives him again an opportunity to sketch a portrait of Christian communities living in the Arabian Peninsula.
From Iraq : Here is why terrorism violates Sharia
Omar Najm ad-Din Enja al-Jabbari
A well-argued letter by Omar Najm ad-Din Enja al-Jabbari, aide to the rector of the University of Kirkuk, Iraq, in which the latter explains why from an Islamic point of view terrorism violates the Shari'a, citing as example the attacks and violence sweeping Iraq since 2003.
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Book Reviews
 F. Rosenthal, Knowledge Triumphant, Leiden, E. J. Brill 1970.
By Martino Diez
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 Pia de Simony, Marie Czernin, Elias Chacour - Israeli, Palästinenser, Christ. Sein Leben erzählt [...], (Elias Chacour Israeli Palestinian, Christian - A Biography)Herder, Freiburg - Basel - Wien 2007
By Philipp Harnoncourt
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 L. Zanfrini, Sociologia delle migrazioni, Editori Laterza, Bari 2007
By Maria Laura Conte
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Two months after the abduction and murder of the Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, H.E. Msgr. Faraj Paulos Rahho, his fellow prelate, H. E. Msgr. Shlemon Warduni, Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad, talks to Oasis, bearing witness to the situation as an Iraqi who knows that whilst Christians are certainly suffering so is an entire, mostly Muslim people, waiting for an end to war and violence, hoping for the dawn of a true democracy.