President Michel Sleiman has called on Lebanese lawmakers to work toward the end of "confessionalism in politics". Lebanese governments are traditionally based on power-sharing deals between the country’s different religious groups.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, held talks with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome on Saturday just two weeks after the Vatican extended a hand to conservative Anglicans dismayed by steps to ordain women and openly gay clergy.
The Daily Telegraph in Sydney goes back over the history of suspicions associated with Friday 13th. In France, it’s a day of good luck but for most of the Western World, it’s associated with doom and gloom.
In a major speech Thursday about what it means to be French, President Nicolas Sarkozy said that the burqa and the "subservience of women" had no place in secular France. France has one of Europe's largest Muslim populations.
Though failing to ensure passage of a critical electoral bill, the 275 members of Iraq's parliament have voted to grant themselves lavish perks, including a major pay rise that has sparked outrage among leading clerics and the wider population.
The debate examines if the French Model of a state without religion works. Is it possible to have a model for Society where beliefs and signs thereof are kept separate from the State?
The debate examines if the French Model of a state without religion works. Is it possible to have a model for Society where beliefs and signs thereof are kept separate from the State?
In today’s international press review, we look at the world’s reaction regarding the Lisbon Treaty. The Czech Republic was the last EU member state to sign it.
In his 2009 book "Pari de civilisation" (bet for civilisation), Abdelwahab Meddeb discusses the modernity of Islam and suggests some new interpretations of the Koran.
Marc Perelman interviews Tariq Ramadan (Saint Antony’s College Oxford); Amel Boubekeur (Carnegie Middle East Center); Fouad Al Obaid (Kuwait Times); and Stefan Braendle (Frankfurter Rundschau).
