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  • 8 Apr 2011
    The fast for US budget justice has gone viral

    The hunger fast for a moral US budget has gone spiritually viral, says Jim Wallis. It has brought together Christian, secular, community and service organisations around a clear message: there are clear economic choices to be made, and the moral ones recognise the priority of the poorest and most vulnerable.

  • 6 Apr 2011
    US Christians fast, pray and protest against budget 'assault on the poor'

    Thousands of Christians across the USA are fasting in solidarity and protest against a budget process which is punishing the poorest.

  • 6 Apr 2011
    Fasting for the (un-budgeted) poor

    A biblically-inspired fast is taking place in the USA, as Christians and Jews protest the way budget debate is sidelining the poor. Martin E. Marty reflects on a movement for justice with ancient roots and modern resonances.

  • 4 Feb 2011
    Fasting: reshaping our desires towards justice

    Christians and Muslims have been fasting for peace with justice in Egypt. But what on earth has giving up food got to do with changing the world? The answer, suggests Simon Barrow, is that it helps re-shape our desires as human beings, and therefore our political and spiritual orientation.

  • 4 Feb 2011
    Global Christian students organise fast for Egypt

    The World Student Christian Federation is organising a worldwide fasting and prayer initiative for peace and justice in Egypt at noon today.

  • 19 Feb 2010
    Don't give up for Lent, says Kirk moderator

    The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has called on Kirk members to find ways of being better Christians, rather than avoiding things such as chocolate, alcohol or cigarettes during Lent.

  • 17 Feb 2010
    Learning to hunger for justice

    What people are learning through hungering for justice is that trying to come up with policies for a better world is not enough, says Simon Barrow. We need changed people to want them and to make them work. That involves re-shaping our desires, not just our political hopes. At its best, that is what fasting is all about.

  • 17 Feb 2010
    British Methodists urge fast for Fiji as human rights abuses worsen

    Methodists in Britain and Ireland are urging a day of prayer and fasting on 25 February in solidarity with Methodists in Fiji. The military regime in Fiji has banned the Methodist Church's meetings and arrested its leaders.

  • 15 Feb 2010
    Give it up for CAFOD

    On 26 February CAFOD will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Family Fast Day, now called Lent Fast Day.

  • 4 Feb 2009
    Food crisis and Lent fasting linked in Vatican gathering

    Urgent action to address the global food crisis and a life-affirming discipline of fasting were the twin agenda of a Vatican gathering to focus on the meaning of Lent this week.