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A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heaving with female clients: a bride-to-be, a pregnant woman, a bitter divorcée, a devout woman and a pill-popping addict. But their day of leisure is disrupted when gunfire breaks out across the street. A gangland family has stolen the lion from Gaza’s only zoo, and Hamas has decided it’s time to settle old scores. Stuck in the salon, with the prospect of death drawing ever nearer, the women start to unravel. How will the day end? Will they lose their lives for the sake of “liberating the lion”?
Through prayer, we recognize the power and goodness of God, our poverty and dependence on him, an act of virtue that involves the deepest respect for God, humility and dedication. But when prayer becomes just a daily habit practiced only to maintain a certain social status or power, it becomes a disaster. And this is practiced by some religious movements that claim, lie and steal in the name of God
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