Jean-Pierre Moreau was born on December 13, 1940 in Rochechouart, France. He obtained a master’s degree in modern literature at the University of La Sorbonne, Paris and traveled widely. After several years as a French teacher in Troyes, France, he directed a Catholic magazine, Permanences, from 1972 to 1985. From 1985 to 1991, he was a journalist and reporter for Le Figaro Magazine, covering events in some thirty countries including fourteen in South America and nine in Africa; he reported on the Lebanese war and guerrilla warfare. He has written many books and has run a blog, “Terrorism pastoral,” with commentary on religious news, since 2009. He is married and has five children, thirteen grandchildren, and one great-grandson.