Police and military officials will not be able to stop demonstrators in Egypt or other countries of North Africa, the former rector of Rome's Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies has said.
Fr Justo Lacunza Balda said in an email to the Catholic News Service: "Ordinary people cannot tolerate anymore the appalling conditions of human degradation in which they live. They say, 'Enough is enough' and believe that they have nothing to lose.
"Therefore, neither the police nor the army will stop people in the Arab countries from demanding freedom and human dignity," he said.
