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Join in next Thursday, May 2, during our one-day social media blitz to encourage the public to join Team No Kid Hungry and help us end childhood hunger in the U.S.! The day’s goal is to recruit 5,000 new members to Team No Kid Hungry, and we need your help.

Our Team No Kid Hungry Social Council, a network of 15 dedicated No Kid Hungry supporters and social activists, are working to recruit No Kid Hungry supporters, including high profile members of the culinary and entertainment industries for the Recruitment Day. These supporters will use their influence on social media to recruit advocates to join the fight against child hunger by taking the No Kid Hungry Pledge.

As an added incentive, the filmmakers who brought you the hunger documentary A Place At The Table will be donating $1 for every…

If your Lord had pleased, surely all those who are on the earth would have believed, all of them; will you then force men till they become believers?

__ Quran 10.99

Originally published in Daily News Egypt

Beni Suef– A story of romance has turned ugly and led to eruption of another round of sectarianism in Egypt. Rana El-Shazli, a 21-year-old Egyptian Muslim woman, is believed to have converted to Christianity and fled to Turkey with a Coptic Christian man.

Although interfaith relationships are common across the globe, it is a taboo in Egypt, conversion to and from Islam is always a tricky, sensitive topic in Egypt; however, in the current tense atmosphere, the situation has turned into a tragic story of exploitation. Angry Islamists attacked St George Church in Beni Suef, occasionally with Molotov cocktails, and forced Christians to close their shops for nearly eight days last month. Members of…

(satire – probably)

Liberal Democrats may in future be able to have their missing balls or backbones replaced with ones grown from cells taken from chickens or mice, experts have predicted.

Scientists say hybrids of mouse or chicken stem cells – both of which are remarkably similar in structure to those extracted from Liberal Democrat cabinet ministers – raises the possibility of growing missing teeth, backbones and balls on junior coalition MPs’ bodies.

Several pairs of fully functioning balls – created by combining stem cells taken from mice and Vince Cable well before he sold himself out for a seat in the cabinet – have been grown in a laboratory by researchers who hope the work could lead to Liberal Democrat MPs being able to grow back other things they lack – such as scruples or guts – and in the future it may even be possible to provide them…

Main Headlines

 Monday

• Islamist MPs prepare for battle against judiciary
• Morsi under fire after meeting with judges
• Al-Azhar under pressure not to issue women’s rights document
• Islamists heckle popular current leader Sabbahi at Shubra university
• Egypt’s IMF loan accord unlikely before fourth quarter
• NSF calls for protests at Shura Council

Tuesday

• President’s adviser resigns over lackluster vision
• Egypt prosecutors appeal release of 30 detained in Friday clashes
• Mubarak’s finance minister Boutros Ghali sentenced to 25 years
• Ain Shams train project established through sukuk
• Abu-Ismail praises prosecution deputy for ordering lashing of drunk citizen
• PM appeals one-year sentence

Wednesday

• Hagel presses Islamist-led Egypt on reforms
• IMF detects discouraging signs from Egypt
• Islamist-led parliament pushes ahead with a controversial judicial law, despite a rising uproar
• Egypt’s Prime Minister will keep his job despite government reshuffle
• Mubarak‘s detention extended for 15 days
• Egypt to issue schedule next month for gradual fuel…