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Show your solidarity with Iranian women who are demanding equity and equal protection under the law.

In Iran, women face striking legal and economic inequities. Even if a woman’s husband beats her, beats their children, or is addicted to drugs, she has virtually no custody rights to their children upon divorce — the father automatically gets custody of a boy over the age of two and a girl older than seven. A divorced woman receives no financial support from her husband.

Under current Iranian law, women also receive unequal treatment in the right to inherit property (although this right is specifically granted in the Quran) and the ability to seek prosecution for rape. Iranian women may be subjugated to death by stoning as punishment for adultery.

Last June, Iranian women launched a grassroots movement to right these inequities, demanding changes be made to Iran’s constitution. This movement includes the “One Million Signatures Demanding Changes to Discriminatory Laws” petition. We invite you to participate in this unprecedented international campaign and add your name to those that have poured in from around the world. Let the women of Iran know that we stand with them in their struggle to be treated as fully human.

Visit (copy paste it) http://www.we4change.com/spip.php?article19 to sign the petition.

Click on the image to view full size. This picture was taken 2 days ago. Unfortunately this becomes a daily reality. kids taking stuff out of garbage containers in Beirut. I mention Beirut because this is where I often go and see the kids. They do not attend school, but work and sell whatever they find.

This is how our church looked like last Friday. The icons had been copied and then glued on to and cut out of wood.

We then also had Palmsunday and now the Resurrection will stay till Pentecost.

We, Christians started lent 40 days ago and today arrived at the Holy triduum leading us to Easter. We’re not so far yet, Christ is still to suffer, die and rise again according to the Scriptures.

Wishing you all a blessed Easter. May the joy of the risen Christ be yours.