Tag: Religion
a combat unit reserved for young practicing women
In Israel, the army has just set up a fighting unit for religious women. Some indeed refuse military service because of the presence of men by their side. From our…
the Dalai Lama “had a very close relationship with Desmond Tutu”
The Dalai Lama had made it ” his spiritual elder brother “. Desmond Tutu, who died at the age of 90, shared a strong friendship with the spiritual leader of…
Sweden: Church issues official apology to Sami community
At the end of November, the Church of Sweden, in a ceremony at Uppsala Cathedral, for the first time made a formal apology to the Sami community. The government, for…
The bishops of France comforted by Pope Francis in their fight against child crime
On Monday, December 13, the leaders of the Church of France were received at the Vatican and handed over the report of the Independent Commission on Sexual Violence in the…
Exhibition: “Jews of the East, a multi-thousand-year history” at the Institut du monde arabe
After “Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca”, in 2014, and “Christians of the East: 2000 years of history”, in 2017, the Institute of the Arab World is devoting an exhibition to…
RATP launches training courses focused on secularism for its agents
RATP is associated with the National Day of Secularism and wishes to mobilize all of its employees by launching “the Week of Working Together” around the principles of secularism. How…
spate of arrests in new blasphemy lynching case
One of the Sri Lankan managers of a factory in the Punjab region was beaten to death and set on fire by the mob on Friday evening, his attackers accused…
In his Sunday prayer of the Angelus, the Pope again mentions migrants
Pope Francis expresses his “ pain ”After the recent tragedies involving migrants in the Channel, on the Belarusian border, or in the Mediterranean. At the end of the Sunday prayer…
The Archbishop of Paris offers his resignation to the Pope to “preserve the diocese”
The Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, implicated for having had an ambiguous relationship with a woman, presented his resignation to the Pope. General practitioner, late vocation, Mgr Aupetit was ordained…
removal of Turkish textbooks with illustrations of the Prophet Muhammad
Syrian authorities, in an area under Turkish control, have decided to withdraw religious textbooks with illustrations depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Residents of the town of Jarablos, near the Turkish border,…