"Christianity in the Middle East Christianity, which originated in the Middle East in the 1st century AD, is a significant minority religion of the region. Christianity in the Middle East is characterized by the diversity of its beliefs and traditions, compared to other parts of the Old World. Christians now make up approximately 5% of the Middle Eastern population, down from 20% in the early 20th century. Cyprus is the only Christian Majority country in the Middle East, with the Christian percentage ranging between 76% and 78% of mainly Eastern Orthodox Christianity (i.e. most of the Greek population). Proportionally, Lebanon"
"in Cairo. He joined the diplomatic service in 1962 and retained his link with the Middle East throughout his career. Gray retired from the Foreign Office in 1996 and on returning to Wales became involved in public and community affairs, including: John Gray (diplomat) Sir John Walton David Gray (1 October 1936 – 1 September 2003), was a senior British diplomat. In 1987, as the British ambassador to Beirut, Gray unsuccessfully attempted to dissuade Terry Waite from re-entering Beirut without proper protection, with the result that Waite was kidnapped and held for nearly five years. John Gray was born in"
"John McCarthy (journalist) John Patrick McCarthy (born 27 November 1956) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster, and one of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis. McCarthy was the United Kingdom's longest-held hostage in Lebanon, where he was a prisoner for more than five years. He attended Lochinver House School, then Haileybury College, Hertfordshire, and read American Studies at the University of Hull. McCarthy was a journalist working for United Press International Television News at the time of his kidnap by Islamic Jihad terrorists in Lebanon in April 1986, and was held in captivity until his release on 8"
"John McCarthy (Australian rules footballer, born 1967) John Frederick George McCarthy (born 30 March 1967) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne and Fitzroy in the VFL/AFL. Originally from Wales, McCarthy is one of the most successful Australian rules football players to have been born overseas. Between 1989 and 1993 he represented Tasmania regularly at interstate football. McCarthy grew up in Tasmania and played his early football with North Hobart and developed into a key position player. He debuted in the VFL for North Melbourne in 1986 and spent seven seasons with the club. In 1993"
"agreement had to have been made and approved by Qatar's attorney general. The U.S. has labeled Qatar an ""inconsistent"" partner in combating terror finance. Jaralla al-Marri Jaralla Saleh Mohammed Kahla al-Marri is a citizen of Qatar and a former detainee at the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba, where he was imprisoned for six and a half years. He returned to Qatar on 27 July 2008. He was reportedly born on 12 August 1973, in Doha, Qatar according to the Department of Defense. Al Marri studied English in Texas in from 1993-1994. He studied at both Texas A&M"
"Terry McCarthy (journalist) Terry McCarthy is a former foreign correspondent who has been president of the American Academy in Berlin since September 1, 2018. He had previously headed the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, a non-partisan foreign affairs forum in Los Angeles, since 2012. McCarthy has won four Emmy Awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award. He has worked with The Independent, Time magazine, ABC News, and CBS News. He holds an Honorary Degree as a Doctor of Literature from University College Dublin. McCarthy was affiliated with The Independent from 1987 until 1995. He served as a Southeast Asia correspondent"
"John A. McCarthy John Anthony McCarthy QC (born 20 October 1947 in Parkes, New South Wales), was Australian Ambassador to the Holy See from 2012 to 2016. Prior to his ambassadorial appointment, he was a Queens Counsel at the NSW Bar and a barrister in Sydney. McCarthy is the son of Anthony and Eileen McCarthy and grew up in country New South Wales and attended St Bernard’s College, Katoomba. In 1965, he moved to Sydney to study at the University of Sydney as a resident of St John’s College. He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1968 and Bachelor of Laws"
"he moved to Fitzroy and kicked 40 goals in his debut season. John McCarthy (Australian rules footballer, born 1967) John Frederick George McCarthy (born 30 March 1967) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne and Fitzroy in the VFL/AFL. Originally from Wales, McCarthy is one of the most successful Australian rules football players to have been born overseas. Between 1989 and 1993 he represented Tasmania regularly at interstate football. McCarthy grew up in Tasmania and played his early football with North Hobart and developed into a key position player. He debuted in the VFL for North"
"John Gray (diplomat) Sir John Walton David Gray (1 October 1936 – 1 September 2003), was a senior British diplomat. In 1987, as the British ambassador to Beirut, Gray unsuccessfully attempted to dissuade Terry Waite from re-entering Beirut without proper protection, with the result that Waite was kidnapped and held for nearly five years. John Gray was born in at Burry Port in Carmarthenshire and educated at Blundell's School. After National Service in Cyprus and Egypt he attended Christ's College, Cambridge and later did postgraduate research in Arab nationalism at the Middle East Centre in Oxford and the American University"
"John McCarthy (Australian diplomat) John Philip McCarthy , (born 1942) is a former Australian diplomat. Born in Washington, D.C., McCarthy was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge where he received a Master of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws degree. He is a barrister-at-law and practised in London from 1965 to 1966. He worked with the New York City Law Firm of Shearman & Sterling from 1966 to 1967 and joined the Department of External Affairs in 1968. McCarthy has served as Australia's Ambassador to Vietnam (1981–83), Ambassador to Mexico (1985–87), Ambassador to Thailand (1992–94), Ambassador to the United States from"
"Mick McCarthy Michael Joseph McCarthy (born 7 February 1959) is a professional football manager, pundit and former player who is currently the manager of the Republic of Ireland. Born in Barnsley, England with an Irish father, he played for the Republic of Ireland on 57 occasions scoring two goals. McCarthy began his playing career at Barnsley in 1977, and he later had spells at Manchester City, Celtic, Lyon, and finally Millwall, retiring in 1992. He went on to manage Millwall, and then the Republic of Ireland. He guided Ireland to the knockout stage of the 2002 FIFA World Cup in"
"Latterly she has held the role of Head of Public Affairs with the British Lung Foundation. Jill Morrell Jill Morrell (born 1957) is a British charity worker and former journalist. She came to the public eye following the kidnapping of her boyfriend John McCarthy, in 1986. Morrell was a tireless and effective campaigner for McCarthy's release from captors who held him in Lebanon for more than 5 years. Morrell was raised in Yorkshire, and is a graduate of Hull University. She met McCarthy while they were both working as journalists. They had been in a relationship for only a short"
"2017, he was named in the startlist for the 2017 Tour de France. Jay McCarthy Jay McCarthy (born 8 September 1992) is an Australian racing cyclist, who currently rides for . He finished in 91st place in the 2014 Giro d'Italia. In 2015, McCarthy showed promise by reaping a third place in the overall classification of the Tour of Turkey thanks to good placings in the mountains. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España and the 2016 Giro d'Italia. In October 2016 he was announced as a member of the squad for 2017, with"
"Afghan Bomb Squad. In 2012, McCarthy was appointed the president and CEO of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, a foreign affairs forum. He has interviewed speakers including Timothy Geithner, Elon Musk, Stanley McChrystal, John McCain and Bill Clinton. He is also a frequent speaker and moderator for programs that focus on the media and foreign coverage, American foreign policy, events in the Middle East, and the pivot to Asia. He also provides commentary and expert opinions for publications including The New York Times and Yale Global Online. Since September 1, 2018, Terry McCarthy has been the president of the"
"to negotiate with those holding British sailors and marines seized by Iran in disputed waters on 23 March 2007. Waite has a particular regard for Eastern Orthodoxy and the writings of Carl Jung. In 2008, he joined the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers. In 2004, Waite returned to Beirut for the first time since his release from captivity. He told the BBC, ""If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do more damage to you than to the people who have hurt you."" Waite travelled again to Beirut in December 2012 to reconcile with his captors and"
"Jay McCarthy Jay McCarthy (born 8 September 1992) is an Australian racing cyclist, who currently rides for . He finished in 91st place in the 2014 Giro d'Italia. In 2015, McCarthy showed promise by reaping a third place in the overall classification of the Tour of Turkey thanks to good placings in the mountains. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España and the 2016 Giro d'Italia. In October 2016 he was announced as a member of the squad for 2017, with a focus on short stage races and punchy one day classics. In June"
"Jill Morrell Jill Morrell (born 1957) is a British charity worker and former journalist. She came to the public eye following the kidnapping of her boyfriend John McCarthy, in 1986. Morrell was a tireless and effective campaigner for McCarthy's release from captors who held him in Lebanon for more than 5 years. Morrell was raised in Yorkshire, and is a graduate of Hull University. She met McCarthy while they were both working as journalists. They had been in a relationship for only a short time prior to McCarthy's abduction. She kept McCarthy's name in the public domain with a campaign"
"Some Other Rainbow Some Other Rainbow is a joint memoir written by John McCarthy and Jill Morrell and first published by Bantam Press in 1993. It deals in separate chapters with the individual and parallel experiences of McCarthy and Morrell, during McCarthy's captivity in the Lebanon, which lasted from 17 April 1986 until 8 August 1991. While McCarthy was held by Hezbollah, along with Irish hostage Brian Keenan, he was unaware of the campaign being run by Morrell to keep his name in the public eye and help secure his release; only after his release did he discover that she"
"Thomas Sutherland (academic) Dr Thomas Sutherland (May 3, 1931 – July 22, 2016), Dean of Agriculture at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad members near his Beirut home on June 9, 1985. He was released on November 18, 1991 at the same time as Terry Waite, having been held hostage for 2,353 days. Born in Falkirk, Scotland on May 3, 1931, Sutherland was signed as a 17-year-old by Rangers F.C. Sutherland obtained a BSc in Agriculture from the University of Glasgow, and moved to the United States in the 1950s. He was received a"
"August 1991. He shared a cell with the Irish hostage Brian Keenan for several years. While a prisoner, he learned that his girlfriend, Jill Morrell, was actively campaigning for his release, launching a group called ""Friends of John McCarthy"". By the time of McCarthy's release, his mother Sheila had died of cancer, unaware of his fate. Following his release, he co-authored, with Jill Morrell, a memoir of his years in captivity, entitled ""Some Other Rainbow"". Their relationship ended four years later, and he later married Anna Ottewill, a photographer, and they have a daughter. In 1995 John McCarthy sailed around"
"Lufti Bin Swei Lagha Lufti Bin Swei Lagha is a citizen of Tunisia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on November 28, 1968, in Tunis, Tunisia. According to historian Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, Lagha had lived for a time in Italy, prior to traveling to Afghanistan. According to Worthington, Tajik captive Airat Vakhitov asserted medical staff in Kandahar unnecessarily amputated eleven of Lagha's fingers and toes, and then beat the stubs when they participated in his interrogation. After"
"sisters were flown by Irish Government executive jet to Damascus to meet him and bring him home to Northern Ireland. He now lives in Dublin. He returned to Beirut in 2007 for the first time since being released 17 years earlier, and described ""falling in love"" with the city. ""An Evil Cradling"" is an autobiographical book by Keenan about his four years as a hostage in Beirut. The book revolves heavily around the great friendship he experienced with fellow hostage John McCarthy, and the brutality that was inflicted upon them by their captors. It was the 1991 winner of the"
"at the University of Illinois, the Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Chemical Division, Edgewood Arsenal, Stonybrook University, FEMA, Scientific Applications International Corp., Northeast Consulting Engineers, the University of NH and the National Bureau of Standards. McCarthy has designed and installed over 1400 underground shelters and published twelve patents. McCarthy and several of his shelter companies have been featured in The New York Times, KSAT ABC, The Wall Street Journal, CBS News, Wired Magazine, Popular Mechanics, and CNN and multiple other publications.<ref> Walton McCarthy Walton W. McCarthy (born 1951) is an American businessman and mechanical engineer"
"Andrew C. McCarthy Andrew C. McCarthy III (born 1959) is an American columnist for ""National Review"". He served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. A Republican, he is most notable for leading the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and eleven others. The defendants were convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and planning a series of attacks against New York City landmarks. He also contributed to the prosecutions of terrorists who bombed United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He resigned from the Justice Department in 2003. During the Obama"
"John McCarthy (Australian rules footballer, born 1989) John Shane McCarthy (19 November 1989 – 9 September 2012) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Drafted by Collingwood with the 31st selection in the 2007 National Draft, McCarthy was a midfielder. He made his debut late in the 2008 AFL season and held his position for the last six matches of the year, including two finals. He struggled to maintain his place in the Collingwood side in 2009 and 2010, playing only two games in"
"David McCarty David Andrew ""Dave"" McCarty (born November 23, 1969) is a former first baseman and outfielder in Major League Baseball. From 1993 through 2005, McCarty played with the Minnesota Twins (1993–1995), San Francisco Giants (1995–1996), Seattle Mariners (1998), Kansas City Royals (2000–2002), Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2002), Oakland Athletics (2003) and Boston Red Sox (2003–2005). He batted right-handed and threw left-handed. McCarty was drafted by the Twins in the 1st round (3rd overall) of the 1991 Major League Baseball draft. In an eleven-season career, he was a .242 hitter with 36 home runs and 175 RBI in 630 games."
"Joe McCarthy (outfielder) Joseph Edward McCarthy Jr. (born February 23, 1994) is an American professional baseball outfielder and first baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays organization. McCarthy graduated from Scranton High School in Scranton, Pennsylvania. After his senior year, in 2012, ""The Scranton Times-Tribune"" named him their Male High School Athlete of the Year. He attended the University of Virginia, and played college baseball for the Virginia Cavaliers. His 2015 season debut was delayed by back surgery. In three seasons at Virginia, he played in 162 games with a .294 batting average, 12 home runs, and 111 RBIs, with 113"
"John McCarthy (ice hockey) John McCarthy (born August 9, 1986) is an American professional ice hockey left winger who currently who plays for the San Jose Barracuda in the American Hockey League (AHL). He formerly played with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Internationally, he has represented the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics. McCarthy played the 2004–05 season with the Des Moines Buccaneers of the United States Hockey League. He then played collegiate hockey with Boston University in the Hockey East before he was drafted by the San Jose Sharks, 202nd overall in the"
"Justin McCarthy (American historian) Justin A. McCarthy (born October 19, 1945) is an American demographer, professor of history at the University of Louisville, in Louisville, Kentucky. He holds an honorary doctorate from Boğaziçi University, Turkey, and is a board member of the Institute of Turkish Studies and the Center for Eurasian Studies (AVIM). His area of expertise is the history of the late Ottoman Empire. McCarthy's work has faced harsh criticism by some scholars who have characterized McCarthy's views as genocide denial. McCarthy served in the Peace Corps in Turkey, from 1967 to 1969, where he taught at Middle East"
"there by Syrian- and Iranian-sponsored terrorist groups. In 1990, Israel reportedly considered offering to release Yosef Amit, an Israeli military intelligence officer serving a 12-year sentence for spying for the United States and another NATO power, in exchange for Pollard. Sources conflict on the outcome: According to one, Amit made it known that he had no wish to be exchanged. By another account, Israeli officials vetoed the idea, fearing that it would only stoke more anger in the United States. (Amit served out his sentence and was released in 1993.) In the 1990s former University of Notre Dame president Theodore"
"MI -Out of Print- ( 2001)<br> ""Say Goodnight, Grace Notes"" (EM Press 2003)<br> ""Almost A Remembrance: Shorter Poems"" (Moon Pie Press 2011)<br> ""What I Saw"" (EM Press 2012)<br> ""Drunks and Other Poems of Recovery"" (Write Bloody 2013) ""Breaking Down Outside a Gas Station"" (Wordsmith Press 2002)<br> ""By Gift Unearned"" (EM Press 2008) Jack McCarthy (writer) Jack McCarthy (May 23, 1939 – January 17, 2013) was an American writer and slam poet. John (Jack) Xavier McCarthy was born in South Boston, Massachusetts, the oldest of four children. He later received a scholarship to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. In the"
"South Korea and Japan. He later managed Sunderland, and then Wolverhampton Wanderers. He has also been a television pundit and commentator, most recently for the BBC. He began a second tenure as manager of the Republic of Ireland football team in 2018. Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, McCarthy made his league debut for then-Fourth Division Barnsley on 20 August 1977 in a 4–0 win over Rochdale. He spent two years in the basement league, before the club won promotion. Two years later, the team again went up to the (old) Division 2. A strong central defender, he was a virtual ever-present"
"Neil McCarthy (rugby union) Neil McCarthy (born 29 November 1974 in Slough) is an English Rugby union player. He was in the team for the 1999 Rugby World Cup in Wales and is one of only a handful of players to have an England cap at every representative level (U16; U18; U21; Saxons & Senior). He played as a hooker but could also cover prop. He was involved with the England team from 1998–2000, including the Rugby World Cup 1999. McCarthy started his early rugby career at Bath academy before moving to Gloucester and then to Bristol where his career"