Tag: Religion
In France, the Senegalese diaspora celebrates Eid modestly to help loved ones back home
Eid El Fitr, which marks the end of the month of Ramadan, will be celebrated on Wednesday April 10 in most countries of the Muslim world. In Paris, some of…
“The Maurice-Ravel high school affair illustrates the difficulties of applying the law on religious symbols at school”
Resignation of a principal threatened with death, complaint filed in the name of the State against a student, establishment of a “ mobile school force “… The Maurice-Ravel high school…
Quran desecrer Salwan Momika arrested in Sweden and under threat of deportation
He triggered a wave of indignation in the Muslim world by burning copies of the Koran in Sweden in the summer of 2023. Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee, was arrested…
“The Church in the DRC is not the voice of opposition but of rationality,” says a sociologist
In the DRC, during the 2024 Easter Mass, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo denounced “ a country in agony “. Critical remarks from the Archbishop of Kinshasa which illustrate, according to sociologist…
Seconded imams are no longer authorized to work in French mosques
In France, April 1, 2024 officially marks the end of the status of seconded imams, these foreign religious people paid by States but sent to France to work in French…
the conscription of the ultra-orthodox deeply divides the country
Political crisis in Israel over the conscription of ultra-Orthodox students. The law on their exemption from military service expires this Sunday, March 31 in the evening without any solution having…
Easter celebrations tarnished by the situation in Gaza and the south of the country
In Lebanon as in the Palestinian Territories, Catholics celebrate Easter this Sunday, March 31, 2024. For the Orthodox, the ceremonies will take place on May 5. But the biggest Christian…
a store targeted by a Molotov cocktail after the sale of socks stamped “Allah”
On March 26, the managers of a chain of stores were charged with “offending religious feelings” after putting on sale socks with “Allah” written on them. On Saturday, a Molotov…
Faith and research, do they go together? Science and religion through the centuries in the Catharijneconvent
On one of the walls hangs a portrait of Henrietta Lacks, made especially for the exhibition. Henrietta was an African-American woman who died in 1951 from cervical cancer. A few…
the former bishop of Bruges reduced to secular status by Pope Francis
Roger Vangheluwe, accused of pedophilia, had lived in seclusion since 2010 in a French abbey. New facts were transmitted to Rome leading the pope to grant the request of the…