Former Maryknoll missioner works to build peace in Asian land Just before leaving Afghanistan last February after working there for three years, I gazed out my office window on a landscape of snow-capped mountains surrounding the capital city of Kabul. The streets were relatively empty on this government-declared snow holiday except for some happy children tossing snowballs and vigorous men shoveling snow off the roofs of their mud-built homes. A snapshot of this calm scene is what I wanted to carry with me. Instead, images of buildings pock-marked with bullet holes and faces of war-weary citizens crowded my mind. Almost 40 years of violence at the hands of dictatorial rulers, feuding...
