The impending visit of Pope Francis to the United Arab Emirates, the first by a pontiff to the Arabian Peninsula, should not merely be seen as a glossy exercise in internationalist and interfaith tolerance. Experts are now predicting the near extinction of Christianity in the region of its birth and the celebration of mass by […]
Author Archives: Martin Newland
Martin Newland is a former editor of The Daily Telegraph in London and The National in Abu Dhabi and deputy editor of the National Post in Canada. He holds a master's degree in pastoral theology, and as a journalist has covered religion and met two popes.
