WEEKLY LINKS:
(PAYWALL) Turkey Needs a New Constitution to Save its Democracy by Fethullah Gulen (honorary president of the Niagara Foundation) in the Financial Times.
Our friend and past speaker Zaher Sahloul writes eloquently about his time working in a hospital in Syria in Foreign Policy’s Democracy Lab blog, using personal anecdotes to put a human face on the carnage and violence in the country.
Another friend of ours, Chairman of the City Club and Professor at Roosevelt University, Paul Green wrote in Today’s Zaman on Democracy in Turkey.
What is Lent? We’re gearing up for Sharing the Faith Easter with events all around Chicagoland. This article in On Faith is a good refresher on why Christians celebrate this season.
COMMUNITY CORNER – NIAGARA’S PICKS FOR UPCOMING EVENTS IN CHICAGO:
Chicago is a city of many diverse communities and cultures. We at Niagara are lucky enough to have friends of all sorts around town. Here are some of the events our friends are putting on soon:
We’re very much looking forward to JCUA’s Seder, which is coming up in April.
The Bernadin Center at CTU is having an “In Good Faith” event on April 9th.
