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September 27, 2011 - Agence France-Presse
AFP: Christians top target of abuse: Vatican
Christians are the number one target of persecution around the world, the Vatican's foreign minister told the UN summit on Tuesday.
September 21, 2011 - The Huffington Post
Huffington Post: Surveying U.S. and French Muslims
The results of two interesting surveys were released recently: one by the Pew Research Center on U.S. Muslims' lives and attitudes and one by IFOP (the leading French market research and opinion poll institute) on French Muslims and the evolution of their socio-religious attitudes over the past two decades.
August 03, 2011 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Germany tries to forge European brand of Islam
Having given birth to the Protestant Reformation and the current pope, Germany is now at the fore of a broad effort to foster a European theological tradition for a relative newcomer: Islam.
July 26, 2011 - Al Arabiya News
Al Arabiya News: Muna Khan / Single Entry: There’s no place like Eurabia
Several writers, of all faiths and races, have debunked the myth of “Eurabia” – this idea that due to the high birth rate of Muslim migrants to Europe, the nature of the continent will change to reflect “Arabia.”
July 25, 2011 - USA Today
USAT: Post-slaughter, Norway clings to peaceful, inclusive values
Norway has long prided itself on being a nation of peace, a refuge for those fleeing violence in their homelands.
July 25, 2011 - The Nation
The Nation: Europe's homegrown terrorists
Two weeks after the fatal terrorist attacks of July 7, 2005, in London, and one day after another failed attack, a student, Jean Charles de Menezes, was in the London Underground when plainclothes police officers gave chase and shot him seven times in the head.
July 24, 2011 - CNN
CNN: Who is the suspect in the Norway attacks?
As Norway struggles to come to terms with its greatest loss of life in decades, all eyes are on the man charged in the explosion in central Oslo and the deadly shooting rampage at a youth camp.
July 24, 2011 - The Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem Post: Norway’s challenge
The cold-blooded calculation of the Norway tragedy boggles the mind.
June 22, 2011 - CNN
CNN: U.S. evangelicals gloomy about future, 'global south' optimistic, study finds
Half the world's evangelical Protestant leaders are optimistic about the future, confident that evangelical Christians have an increasing influence in their countries and that things will be better for them in five years.
May 16, 2011 - ABC News Radio
ABC: Heaven a 'fairy story' to Stephen Hawking, not to many Americans
British physicist Stephen Hawking may think that heaven is a mere "fairy story," but he's hard-pressed to find those who share his perspective on this side of the pond.
April 13, 2011 - USA Today
USA Today: Muslim women bring their voices to the veil debate
The new French ban on Muslim women's full face veils has set off protests in Paris streets, but the debate is global.
March 18, 2011 - National Public Radio
NPR: Arab refugees finding harsh welcome in Europe
Refugees fleeing the upheaval in North Africa are running into a different sort of political conflict in Europe.
February 12, 2011 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: The future of Islamic Ireland
Ireland’s Muslim population has grown tenfold in 20 years and is still expanding. But official Ireland is failing to engage with the increasing number of ethnic and political groups.
January 27, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Forecast sees Muslim population leveling off
A new report forecasts that the number of Muslims around the world will grow over the next 20 years at twice the rate of non-Muslims, but that the rapid growth will level off.
January 20, 2011 - Agence-France Presse
AFP: British minister attacks 'acceptable' Islamophobia
The first Muslim woman to sit in the British cabinet warned Thursday that discrimination against Muslims in Britain has become socially acceptable and must be tackled.
October 15, 2010 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Christopher Hitchens: A humanist at heart
Christopher Hitchens -- bald from cancer treatments, speaking between doctor's appointments -- has a special disdain for deathbed religious conversions.
October 13, 2010 - CNN
CNN: Hitchens brothers debate if civilization can survive without God
Brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens squared off Tuesday in a debate over whether civilization can survive without God. Christopher, the older of the two, is a renowned atheist thinker and author.
October 13, 2010 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens spar over religion in cold, civilized debate
It was a most unusual brother act: Christopher Hitchens and Peter Hitchens debating religion; the latter a believer, the former decidedly not.
October 13, 2010 - NPR
NPR: Hitchens brothers agree to disagree over God
Journalist Christopher Hitchens is one of the world's most famous atheists. His brother, Peter, insists that a civilized world must believe in God
September 15, 2010 - Reuters
Reuters: Low support for radicalism among European Muslims

Support for radical Islamist groups is low among European Muslims and some leading groups with overseas roots are now cooperating with local governments and encouraging Muslims to vote, according to a new report.

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