Europe
Message from EMCDDA Director, Alexis Goosdeel
In this first week of the new year, I would like to thank you for your continued support and wish you a very happy 2021. Ringing in the new year…
Europe
Leave.EU leaves Britain after Brexit
Leave.EU has left the UK, as Brexit forced the Eurosceptic campaign group to choose between its name and its country. According to domain name registration records, the organisation, founded by…
Europe
EU Should Avoid Influence From Other Nations on EU-China Relations, FM Wang Yi Says Amid Trade Deal
Europe should not be influenced by other nations in its relations with Beijing, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a meeting with Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday as reported…
America
UFO: The New American Religion
Perhaps the most interesting and telling fact about UFO sightings is that they have overwhelmingly occurred in the United States. This might mean that either extraterrestrials are specifically observing the…
Food
San Francisco and Prague: A Double Portrait
San Francisco and Prague are beautiful cities. In San Francisco, it’s the lucent blue of a vast bay, pastel homes climbing formidable hills — and a magnificent bridge spanning the…
News
Why Christianity remains an in-person religion, even in a pandemic
(RNS) — On Christmas Eve, members of Holy Comforter Episcopal Church in Tallahassee, Florida, will gather in the parking lot for a service that’s part tailgate, part worship and part family…
News
The best religion books of 2020
2020 has been an odd and unsettling year — perhaps the oddest and most unsettling in our lifetimes. I am not one to find silver linings in clouds, but here…
America
Secular Democrats mistakenly invoke Jefferson’s ideals to try and stifle religion in America
This past week a group defining themselves as Secular Democrats of America submitted a 28-page letter to Kamala Harris and Joe Biden calling on them to expunge religion from all…
Europe
Latest Brexit offer ‘selling EU fishing communities down the river’, Barnier told
Michel Barnier has been told by the European fishing industry that his latest offer to the UK amounts to selling coastal communities “down the river” as negotiators continue to haggle…
News
Women associations leader calls for religion tolerance for national development
The President, Federation of Muslim Women Associations in Nigeria, Mrs Halima Jibril, on Saturday charged religious leaders to promote religion tolerance to engender national development. Jibril gave the charge in…