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  • 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.

  • 3 Feb 2011
    Media manipulation and repression in Egypt

    Egyptian authorities are harassing journalists, says Index on Censorship. They have also hijacked a cellphone company to send out pro-regime texts.

  • 3 Feb 2011
    Stop attacks on peaceful protesters, Egypt told

    The Egyptian government should stop what appear to be organized attacks on pro-democracy demonstrators, Human Rights Watch said today.

  • 3 Feb 2011
    Mubarak's henchmen: the word on the street

    What has really been happening on the streets of Cairo, and who are these pro-Hosni Mubarak 'supporters' who have suddenly emerged, after many days of genuine protest, to throw rocks and hand-bombs at citizens and demonstrators alike?

  • 2 Feb 2011
    Mubarak thugs accused of being government provocateurs

    Mubarak backers have attacked protesters against the Egyptian regime in Tahrir Square, Cairo, but so far do not seem to have quelled the demonstrators.

  • 2 Feb 2011
    The citizenship challenge for Arab Christians

    In the midst of popular uprisings against oppression across the Middle East, an important identity question faces hard-pressed Christian minorities, says Harry Hagopian. Can these Christian communities play their role as fully-fledged Arab citizens rather than solely as ‘Arab Christians’.

  • 2 Feb 2011
    Popular pressure in the Middle East turns to Yemen

    Thousands of people are set to take to the streets in a 'day of anger' in Yemen tomorrow, demanding economic and political change.

  • 2 Feb 2011
    Jordan demos force King to sack cabinet

    While global media attention has focused on protests in Egypt, demonstrations in Jordan have forced the Kind of Jordan to sack his cabinet.

  • 2 Feb 2011
    US and world churches join Copts in praying for Egypt

    National Council of Churches USA members have joined the Coptic Orthodox Church in North America in a three-day period of prayer and fasting for Egypt.