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August 21, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope to pilgrims: spread faith as youth fest ends
Pope Benedict XVI urged more than 1.5 million young people to become missionaries for the faith Sunday, giving them words of encouragement as he concluded a glitch-marred church youth festival and announced that the next edition will be in Rio de Janeiro in 2013.
August 21, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Pope urges pilgrims in Spain to stay true to their beliefs
Pope Benedict XVI closed the religious ceremonies of World Youth Day on Sunday with a giant Mass in which he told young people to “swim against the tide” and abide by the principles of the Catholic Church despite broader changes in society.
August 19, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope laments 'amnesia' about God during Spain trip
Pope Benedict XVI complained Friday that modern society has a certain "amnesia" about God as he lamented the dwindling of the faith during a visit to Spain, a once staunchly Catholic country that has seen the church's grip on society fall dramatically since the end of the Fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
August 18, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope demands greater ethics in economic policy
Pope Benedict XVI has denounced the profit-at-all-cost mentality that he says is behind Europe's current economic crisis, and says morals and ethics must play a greater role in formulating economic policy in the future.
August 15, 2011 - The Independent
The Independent: Madrileños up in arms at cost of Pope's visit
Preparations in Madrid for the impending visit of Pope Benedict XVI have been marred by protests among locals at the vast sums of money being spent on the event.
August 15, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Catholic clergy protest Pope’s visit, and its price tag
The Rev. Eubilio Rodríguez’s church is a prefabricated building in an area of this city hard hit by Spain’s economic crisis. In front of the altar are a few scraggly potted plants. Behind it, some plastic chairs.
August 15, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Czech leader is isolated in opposing gay parade
President Vaclav Klaus is known for frankly voicing his opinions, and finding popular support.
August 15, 2011 - Newsweek
Newsweek: 'A violent convulsion of kids on holiday from high school'
Few British mosques are places of mosaic or minaret. They are not fine buildings from which muezzins call. They are the adapted back rooms or upstairs quarters of working-class Muslims.
August 13, 2011 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: 800 young Irish pilgrims set off for Madrid to celebrate World Youth Day
CLOSE TO 800 pilgrims from all over Ireland will travel to Madrid this weekend for World Youth Day, which begins on Tuesday in the Spanish capital.
August 13, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Amid rise of multiculturalism, Dutch confront their questions of identity
Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who admitted to mass killings last month, was obsessed with Islam and had high praise for the Netherlands, an important test case in the resurgence of the anti-immigrant right in northern Europe.
August 10, 2011 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Opinion: Too thin a line separates Breivik from intolerant populists
Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician who is convinced that Europe is “in the final stages of Islamization,” is right: Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer, is mad.
August 03, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: In Nordics, ethnic tensions beneath placid surface
He feared immigrants, kept a victims' list that included a famous black hip-hop artist, and allegedly stalked his targets with a gun.
August 01, 2011 - The Toronto Star
Toronto Star: Trail of hatred leads to anti-Muslim views
Norway is burying its 77 dead after an unprecedented terrorist attack. The Norwegian Police Security Service said that the massacre was “unique,” and would not boost the levels of threat from extremist political groups.
July 29, 2011 - The Guardian
The Guardian: Vatican row over sex abuse scandal reveals emergence of a new Ireland
When Ireland's prime minister, Enda Kenny, dared to attack the Vatican's role in the alleged cover-up of child abuse, he unleashed an unprecedented row between the Catholic church and the Irish state, with Rome recalling its ambassador to Dublin, and one priest even comparing Kenny to Adolf Hitler.
July 29, 2011 - The Mail
The Mail: As Islamic extremists declare Britain's first Sharia law zone, the worrying social and moral implications
As a throng of Muslim families crowd around him, Abu Izzadeen speaks in a quiet voice of his plans for the future of Britain.
July 27, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Shift in Europe seen in debate on immigrants
Less than a week after the mass killings in Norway, evidence of a shift in the debate over Islam and the radical right in Europe already appeared to be taking hold on a traumatized Continent.
July 25, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Vatican recalls ambassador to Ireland over abuse report
The Vatican recalled its ambassador to Ireland on Monday, citing reaction to a recent Irish government report that said the Vatican had discouraged efforts by bishops to report cases of sexual abuse to the police.
July 25, 2011 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Norway massacre likely to ramp up monitoring of right-wing groups
Ideological far-right fellow-travelers of Anders Behring Breivik are rushing to distance themselves from the Norwegian killer’s carefully planned murder spree – even as many of these groups defend their own often virulent anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant viewpoints as reasonable.
July 25, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Attack reignites immigration debate in divided Oslo
This is one of the most placid and pleasant capitals of Europe, but Oslo is a divided city.
July 24, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Muslims say extra security to be placed at Britain's mosques after Norway attacks
Some British mosques are boosting security after Norway's horrific massacre was traced to a man who fears Muslims are taking over Europe - an attack that exposed a failure to root out Islamophobia that has bled into the European mainstream.
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