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Wearing the hijab [the veil covering a woman´s hair] has become an adventure, and sometimes it is a crime, due to racism and discrimination against Muslims in the West. This is the result of the experience of the journalist Caroline Fontine of Paris Match magazine. She wore the hijab for three...
The article comments on the issue of wearing the hijab in France and Iran. The author gives examples of Muslim women in France who insist on wearing the hijab, and of Iranian women who believe that the hijab is a sign of oppression.
The number of monks and nuns in Europe decreased from 4500 in 1966 to 927 in 2001. This decrease is due to the radical change in the role of the Church and its impact on the society. Furthermore, sexual liberty and luxury helped in the youth’s turning away from the Church and monasticism.
About 12 imams have been arrested and deported from France since June 2003 because of their extremist ideologies. According to official statistics in France, there are about 32 mosques and zawya [small mosque attached to buildings] under the control of fundamentalist groups [in France] with an...
The monastery of St. Onaura, located on an island outside Cannes, started a business producing many food products. Now it has a million francs income per year. Monk Mark Henry of the Notre Dame and Abigail monastery said that in this way monks would be secure about their future.
The French’s admiration is directed now to the Coptic art and civilization. The Coptic Art exhibition which the Arabic Institute inaugurated in Paris and the visit of some French journalists to the most important Coptic sites in Egypt, reveal the French interest in Coptic civilization.
In late 1999, religious Christians were surprised when two Catholic clergymen announced their giving away of their church positions for the sake of marriage. The story of the two priests that was considered by the Vatican a violation of monastic rules brought to the surface the issue of marriage...
The world in which we live has two ends. The first end had practically occurred on the day of collapse of the Nazi Germany at the end of the Second World War. The second end of the world will occur "suddenly" when the most devastating and most savage third world war erupts because it, at its most...
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