May 2009

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Cover Story
Profiles
The Church of the East
 by Michael J.L. La Civita

Features
An Uphill Battle
Ending Ethiopia’s legacy of gender discrimination
 by Peter Lemieux

Purakkad’s Natural Harmony
Images capture life in a sleepy village as modernization looms
 text and photographs by Peter Lemieux

City of Charity
New life and a brighter future for Egypt’s needy children
 by Liam Stack with photographs by Sean Sprague

Mothering Mercies
Healing in an impoverished city in Jordan
 by Daoud Kuttab with photographs by Nader Daoud

Departments
news
from the world of CNEWA
Perspectives
Survivors
 by Robert L. Stern