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Message from EMCDDA Director, Alexis Goosdeel
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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…

8 January 2021 · 1 min read

Leave.EU leaves Britain after Brexit
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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…

7 January 2021 · 2 min read

EU Should Avoid Influence From Other Nations on EU-China Relations, FM Wang Yi Says Amid Trade Deal
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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…

7 January 2021 · 2 min read

UFO: The New American Religion
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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…

4 January 2021 · 3 min read

San Francisco and Prague: A Double Portrait
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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…

4 January 2021 · 7 min read

Why Christianity remains an in-person religion, even in a pandemic
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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…

25 December 2020 · 6 min read

The best religion books of 2020
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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…

23 December 2020 · 6 min read

Secular Democrats mistakenly invoke Jefferson's ideals to try and stifle religion in America
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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…

20 December 2020 · 1 min read

Latest Brexit offer 'selling EU fishing communities down the river', Barnier told
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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…

20 December 2020 · 5 min read

Women associations leader calls for religion tolerance for national development
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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…

19 December 2020 · 1 min read