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  • 22 Jun 2011
    Christians bring aid to Libyan civilians amid conflict

    Christians are braving the fighting in Libya to deliver help to civilians trapped in the five-month-old conflict between protesters and government forces.

  • 18 Jun 2011
    Israel and Palestine: Live long and prosper

    Israeli political leaders should heed opinions articulated by Jewish-American actor Leonard Nimoy and others, appreciating that a just solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is as much in their interest as it is in that of Palestinians, says Harry Hagopian. Otherwise, if a Palestinian gamble for virtual statehood is met by the usual Israeli intransigence, the outcome could become more deleterious for both peoples let alone more volatile for the Arab Spring.

  • 16 Jun 2011
    Continual change in the Middle East

    Analysts are everywhere these days trying to make sense of what is happening in the MENA region. And it is not so easy either, given the lack of expertise of a number of the pundits, let alone the furious pace of the developments as well as the contradictions inherent in some of the changes from one day to another.

  • 16 Jun 2011
    Human rights can protect Syrian Christians, says Lutheran president

    If Syria can develop a modern society respecting a full range of rights, the Christian minority will not need to worry about its future, the global Lutheran chief says.

  • 13 Jun 2011
    Working for positive change in Yemen

    Yemen has been much in the news of late – and the situation there is often portrayed rather negatively. Ekklesia’s Simon Barrow interviewed Progressio’s enterprising on-the-ground representative in Yemen, Abeer Al-Absi, to find out how she sees the situation, and to discover how the strands of hope can be threaded together. The discussion includes the role of women and the HIV-AIDS challenge.

  • 11 Jun 2011
    Amnesty tells Syrian authorities to stop killing child protesters

    Amnesty International has urged the Syrian authorities to protect child protesters after fresh reports of young people being tortured and killed.

  • 10 Jun 2011
    The G8, corporate economics and the Arab Spring

    The G8 summit of world leaders in France in May 2011 announced billions of dollars of 'aid' for the Arab Spring. Yet it was the G8 who armed and financed the dictators of Egypt and Tunisia, who have now been overthrown.

  • 9 Jun 2011
    Link economic assistance to freedom, says Egyptian Christian

    Future economic assistance to Arab states should be linked to respect for freedom and liberty, a senior leader of an Egyptian Christian organisation says.

  • 8 Jun 2011
    People in Yemen positive about change despite challenges

    Poverty is a very real problem in Yemen and the current situation is having an increasing impact on the poorest people especially, says Progressio.

  • 25 May 2011
    A pessoptimistic overview of the Middle East and North Africa

    There are plenty of grounds for a paradoxical 'pessoptimism' about developments in the Middle East and North Africa, writes Harry Hagopian. The huge Arab struggles for dignity and freedom are vital but will take a long time. History in Europe and the USA should surely teach us that revolutions are never made in one swoop, but take time and cause pain.