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Welby, Israel and the meaning of persecution

21 December 2021

3:30 AM

21 December 2021

3:30 AM

I arrived in Colombo the morning after the attack and went straight to the morgue to identify some of the 269 victims. The concrete building, with its pretty wooden roof, had been overwhelmed by the sheer number of Christian dead. Several bodies lay on the floor of the entrance, some only partially covered up.

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