May 27, 2016

  • Even now, 26 years after a long and traumatic 15-year civil war (1975-1990) ended, there are still bullet-pierced edifices that bear the scars of battle in Beirut, Lebanon. (GSR photo / Chris Herlinger)

"I am often angry. I don't accept criminality, death, torture, bombings. I can't cope with that. I have a desire to see something else. I am impatient. I want the Kingdom now. I want the peace now."

- Sr. Nabiha Afif, secretary general of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, from Even in Lebanon, so long at war, one does not become inured to violence or hate, published on Global Sisters Report