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When Jill Carroll, 28, a Baghdad-based freelancer for the Christian Science Monitor was kidnapped on Saturday, the tightly knit community of reporters in the Iraqi capital knew of the abduction within hours. But in an almost unprecedented move, media organizations in Baghdad- Arabic and English alike-kept a lid on the news in hopes that a media blackout would give negotiators and rescuers time to win her release. For two days it mostly held, to the point where early reports mentioning her affiliation with the Christian Science Monitor were pulled from Web pages. A blog kept by her sister...
...There was fear that her affiliation with a paper with the word ?Christian? in the title might cause her captors to treat her harshly. After two days however, the Monitor ran a story of its own and other media organizations followed suit. ?Jill worked for a lot of newspapers and media from many countries,? Ingwerson told E&P. ?She is not a Monitor staffer...
...hotel compound where she lived, she chose to go outside on assignments wearing the full-length abaya that more and more Iraqi women are donning since the fall of Saddam Hussein?s regime. She speaks Arabic well enough to get by, but employed a translator, Enwiyah, an Iraqi Christian, for complicated interviews. Her language skills have allowed her to interview Iraqis on the streets, and she said that her respect for their dress and customs have often led them to welcome her and to open their lives to her. Often she spoke of the kindness that Iraqi women showed...
...hour until 4 p.m. on Mondays through Fridays to mark the changing of the classes. On Saturdays, the bell rings as if it were a weekday, but stop by 1 p.m. because the University holds some Saturday classes, according to Reverend Peter J. Gomes, who is Plummer professor of Christian morals and The Memorial Church’s Pusey minister. On Sundays, the bell rings from 10:55 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. to mark the morning service and is silent the rest of the day, Gomes says...
...Christians have used bells for thousands of years. Time in western Christian civilization was a Christian concept. Days were marked by prayers,” Gomes says...