as i lay in bed this morning listening to the today programme on radio 4 i became increasingly proud of archbishop john sentamu, who, without taking sides is taking action over the mess in the middle east, by praying and fasting. you can read more about it here. what i thought was particularly good was he was refocussing us back on the real tradgedy of the moment - yesterday's events meant that whilst travellers were inconvenienced they were safe, unlike the people in lebanon:

As of Thursday evening, more than 1,000 Lebanese, most of them civilians, have now been killed in the month-long conflict, Lebanon says. Some 122 Israelis, most of them soldiers, have also been killed.
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