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Ribqa Nevash ‘The number of cases of anti-Christian violence in Pakistan is rapidly increasing’ / 9
REGULARS Word from the Cloisters 15 Puzzles 15 Letters 16 The Living Spirit 17
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4 / The elementary sin
A psychiatrist who has cared for many suicidal patients considers the ethics of deliberately taking one’s own life / BY JULIAN HUGHES
6 / Medjugorje in limbo Confusion remains over whether or not messages given by the alleged apparitions of Mary can be trusted as genuine / BY BESS TWISTON DAVIES
8 / A vote for life
A lifelong pro-life Democrat explains why Kamala Harris will get his vote in next month’s US presidential election / BY STEPHEN SCHNECK
10 / Putin’s culture wars An alliance between the Russian president and Patriarch Kirill is aiming to weaponise Orthodoxy in the Kremlin’s war with the West / BY LUCY ASH
12 / A lively social climber Our adventurer in sustainable gardening rues the day she asked her husband to take an axe to ancient ivy vines / BY ISABEL LLOYD
13 / Raging against the machine Psychiatrist and philosopher Iain McGilchrist reveals the root cause of the ever-proliferating crises facing the world / BY ABIGAIL FRYMANN ROUCH
NEWS
24 / The Church in the World / News briefing 25 / Indigenous rights advocate shot after celebrating Mass
27 / View from the Synod 28 / News from Britain and Ireland / News briefing 29 / Bishop dismayed by school separating from Church
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ARTS / PAGE 18 Podcasts Pick of the best D.J. TAYLOR Theatre The Cabinet Minister; Juno and the Paycock; A Tupperware of Ashes MARK LAWSON Cinema Blitz ISABELLE GREY Music Michael Tilson Thomas ALEXANDRA COGHLAN
BOOKS / PAGE 21
Suzi Feay Shattered HANIF KUREISHI Lavinia Byrne Recent religious and spiritual books Karin Altenberg The Place of Tides JAMES REBANKS Markie Robson-Scott Tell Me Everything ELIZABETH STROUT
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