"Just changing Egypt's constitution is not enough," a Coptic activist told The Media Project. “We need a constitution cleansed of all religious favoritism."
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s release is a watershed in Myanmar’s history. Much will depend on what line she adopts in taking the democracy movement to its logical conclusion.
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The fact is that "Christian answers" no longer enjoy the cultural benefit of the doubt, and that changes the rules of the game for public discourse.
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Rarely has a country postponed its presidential elections as often as has Cote d’Ivoire. But after yet another delay, Ivorians are cautiously optimistic.
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South Sudanese crowded their churches on Sunday to pray and give thanks for the successful and peaceful referendum which ended on January 15.
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JUBA - Media representatives gathered last week to call for the protection journalists and the free flow of information as the country prepares for a historic referendum on the future of the South.
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Juba's Muslim minority has expressed fear of a religious backlash if the referendum results in secession.
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With Burma’s first election in over 20 years just three weeks away, Christians in ethnic minority states fear that afterward the military regime will try to “cleanse” the areas of Christianity...
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Long queues besieged polling stations in southern Sudan in Sunday's referendum.
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Two years after the picturesque island chain embraced democracy, a literary festival imported from the West shows the promise -- and peril -- of that experiment.
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