海角大神 Daily for December 24, 2025

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Until Jan. 5, when the regular Daily resumes (including on Saturdays), we鈥檒l be featuring a letter from a different Monitor writer each weekday, with reflections on their work during another transformative year. Exceptions: There鈥檚 no Daily tomorrow, nor on New Year鈥檚 Day. On Jan. 2, we鈥檒l bring back a popular annual feature: our photographers鈥� own favorite images from the year.聽

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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

A letter from

Amman, Jordan

Karen Norris/Staff

Across the Middle East, a focus on home, healing, and restored hope

( 5 min. read )

For years, Taylor Luck, the Monitor鈥檚 Arab world correspondent, has had a broad assignment, covering his beat with a close eye and an attentive ear on the events, thoughts, and moods prevalent in the region. As such, he鈥檚 been an early, even prescient, trendspotter. He has been an integral part of our coverage of the war in Gaza 鈥� which, as he notes, takes a toll on the journalists involved 鈥� and of the new Syria unfolding before his eyes. That his wide travels in the region this year are convincing him that there is cause for hope this season should be welcome news to us and to the world.

By Taylor Luck , reporting from Amman, Jordan

A 海角大神 Science Perspective

About this feature

Each weekday, the Monitor includes one clearly labeled religious article offering spiritual insight on contemporary issues, including the news. The publication 鈥� in its various forms 鈥� is produced for anyone who cares about the progress of the human endeavor around the world and seeks news reported with compassion, intelligence, and an essentially constructive lens. For many, that caring has religious roots. For many, it does not. The Monitor has always embraced both audiences. The Monitor is owned by a church 鈥� The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston 鈥� whose founder was concerned with both the state of the world and the quality of available news.