George Neumayr R.I.P. UPDATE
"This morning I have the tragic news to announce that my friend, the respected journalist, George Neumayr died yesterday from some illness, when visiting the Ivory Coast, in Africa. His family, friends, are in shock about his death. Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord!"
Neumayr was the founder and a senior editor at The American Spectator and author most recently of The Biden Deception: Moderate, Opportunist, or the Democrats' Crypto-Socialist?. He wasn't yet 60 years old.
Seven days ago, Neumayr became sick but steadfastly refused to go to the hospital.
The US Consulate examined his body and confirmed that he tested positive for malaria.
He also served as a weekly columnist for Crisis Magazine. Moreover, he was a former media fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and also editor of the Catholic World Report, the co-author of No Higher Power and also the author of The Political Pope. He has written on politics and religion for the National Review Online, Human Events, the Washington Times, The Daily Caller, the Washington Examiner, The Hill, and The Guardian.
His last report on Spectator.org was on January 14 about "Why Are the Evangelicals Eating the Church’s Lunch in Côte d’Ivoire?" And the answer, "It is because they are more Catholic than the Catholics."
This is how the article starts, "Last Friday night, I attended as a journalist an all-night evangelical prayer service in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The event lasted from 10 p.m. on Friday night and ended at 5 a.m. on Saturday morning. Attending the event proved very useful to my study of religions in Côte d’Ivoire. It illustrated for me that evangelicals are flourishing in large part because they cleave to a traditional, Biblical Christian spirituality that the Catholic Church under Pope Francis has abandoned. To put it as simply as possible, the evangelicals are more Catholic than the Catholics.
