Best reporting in a print medium dealing with human rights
AWARD YEAR: 1998
AWARD NAME: The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 1998
RECIPIENT: Mark O’Keefe
AFFILIATION: The Oregonian
HONORED WORK: “Christians Under Siege”
The world’s media have paid much attention to the plight of some religious groups—Bosnian Muslims, Russian Jews and Tibetan Buddhists, to name a few. But journalists have paid scant attention to the persecution of followers of the world’s dominant religion—Christianity—in countries where they are in the minority. Mark O’Keefe’s series shed a rare spotlight on the suffering and faith of Burmese Christians living in exile along the Thai border, underground Christians in China, evangelists living incognito in Egypt and Christians taken into slavery in Sudan.
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