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  • February 26, 2020
    Lent: looking beyond 40 days

    On the doorstep of Lent, I stand uncertain.

  • April 1, 2014
    National day of fasting against hunger on Friday 4 April

    Half a million people are going without adequate food in Britain. The End Hunger Fast initiative, which is being backed by Ekklesia and others, is inviting people across the country to join in with a national day of fasting on 4th April 2014.

  • February 21, 2014
    Church leaders call national solidarity fast for UK's hungry

    David Cameron says changes to welfare which have left many hungry is part of his “moral mission”. End Hunger Fast takes a different view.

  • November 20, 2013
    Christian Aid promotes British solidarity fast with typhoon victims

    Christian Aid is inviting those concerned for victims of Typhoon Haiyan to fast today, in solidarity with the leader of the Philippines delegation to UN climate talks.

  • April 8, 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.

  • April 6, 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.

  • April 6, 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.

  • February 4, 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.

  • February 4, 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.

  • February 19, 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.