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August 06, 2011

NYT: In Libya’s capital, straight talk from Christians

by David D. Kirkpatrick
The New York Times

TRIPOLI, Libya — For this week’s sermon at the Libyan capital’s main Protestant church, the Rev. Hamdy Daoud chose to talk about the trial of Hosni Mubarak.

“You have seen the strong man judged in a bed in Egypt,” he told the two dozen immigrant members of his congregation who braved the city’s checkpoints to make it to Anglican Mass on Friday. “And so it works that the weak can overthrow the strong,” he added. “This is what is happening in our Middle East.”

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