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  • 12 Feb
    2009
    Relief as Gaza activist is released in Egypt

    Egyptian police have released an activist with Egyptian and German citizenship who was arrested after he took part in a march supporting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

  • 4 Feb
    2009
    Epistles from Alexandria

    As global Anglican leaders meet in Egypt, the Rev Colin Coward of Changing Attitude is blogging daily on developments.

  • 20 Feb
    2008
    Rights report on Egypt and apostasy

    A recent report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch (co-authored with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights) has highlighted continuing problems around apostasy and civil rights in Egypt.

  • 1 Nov
    2007
    Don't misuse religion to suppress women, says Cherie Booth

    Religion and culture are abused when they are employed illegitimately to justify the suppression of women and the denial of their equal humanity, human rights lawyer Chrie Booth argued yesterday in a lecture at Chatham House in London.

  • 27 Aug
    2007
    Church agency backs Egyptian workers' rights campaign

    The international development agency Christian Aid is protesting that a labour organisation it works with in Egypt has been refused permission to officially register its organisation, preventing its advocacy for workers' rights.

  • 28 Jul
    2007
    Damaged Egyptian cemetery to be restored by Habitat partners

    A south Georgian who co-founded Habitat for Humanity in the 1970s and has led various international humanitarian efforts, has begun raising funds to restore a Presbyterian cemetery in Egypt heavily damaged by earthquakes, floods and vandals.

  • 3 Dec
    2006
    Presbyterians urged to remember Middle East Christians in 2007

    Presbyterians in the United States are being urged to celebrate a week of prayer and witness next year in support of Christians in the Middle East - writes Evan Silverstein for PC (USA) news.

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