Both the Easter story and recent political dramas in the Middle East highlight deep questions about power, says Colin Morris. They show that the power of life is about persuasion.

Dr Rowan Williams used his Easter sermon at Canterbury to highlight healing and reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Solomon Island as signs of God’s grace at work in a suffering and divided world.

Giles Fraser says that Christianity should recapture the liberating core of its message - in partnership with its Jewish friends

Christians in Pakistan remain fearful this Easter after what they say are false blasphemy accusations and attacks on their communities.