Of Gods and Men (2011)Movies

Christianity War A reader sends this piece about a small convent of Trappist nuns living in Syria. These nuns established their presence in conscious imitation of the martyred French Trappist monks of Algeria, whose story was told in the film Of Gods And Men. Here is a bit of their August 29 message: We look at the people around us, our day workers who are all here as if suspended, stunned: “They’ve decided to attack us.” Today we went to Tartous…we felt the anger, the helplessness, the inability to formulate a sense to all this: the people trying their best to work and to live normally. You see the farmers watering their land, parents buying notebooks for the schools that are about to begin, unknowing children asking for a toy or an ice cream…you see...