Christianity and Islam in the Middle East may seem inherently at odds, but a Catholic bishop Wednesday morning dispelled this notion and pleaded for peace and unity in a region desperately lacking both. “Peace is possible, but it takes hard work,” said Bishop Gregory Mansour. “It takes a little bit of defiance, and it takes young people like you to get old people like me to move forward.” Mansour and the organization he leads, Christian Arab and Middle East Churches Together,

At 3:11 p.m. the ringing started. For about an hour and a half, the bells at the Belmont belltower kept ringing. And ringing. And ringing until each of the 2,977 lives lost on September 11th were recognized. It was all part of a service of remembrance was held around the belltower to remember the ten-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania on Sunday. Shortly after the bells started, people, one by one or two by two, started en