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  • Monday, 21 December, 2020
    Germany
    German synagogue attacker sentenced to life in prison

    October 2019 attack, where 2 people were killed, highlighted rise in rightwing violence

  • Monday, 21 December, 2020
    David Gardner
    Joe Biden should learn from the Arab uprising 10 years on

    Tunisia is one of the few lasting successes but the west could help empower young populations and civil society

  • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
    Islam
    Push for homegrown imams stalls in Europe

    Muslim initiatives to curb Islamic influence from abroad hampered by political meddling and communal distrust

  • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
    Amy Kazmin
    An Indian project to celebrate interfaith love at a hostile time

    Couples are publicly honouring their relationships to counter a growing rightwing frenzy over love-jihad

  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
    News in-depthFrench politics
    French Muslims divided over Macron’s planned law to curb Islamism

    Some say government treats them as second-class citizens while others praise crackdown on extremism

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    News in-depthFrench politics
    Macron’s government unveils law targeting Islamists

    Plan includes curbs on home schooling and ban on gender segregation at public swimming pools

  • Tuesday, 8 December, 2020
    New Zealand
    Ardern says sorry to New Zealand Muslims for mosque massacre failings

    Inquiry says authorities did not focus on rightwing terror but could not have stopped attack

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    Indian society
    Hindu nationalists raise spectre of ‘love jihad’ with marriage law

    Indian Muslims accused of forced conversions but rights groups dismiss demographic plot

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    France
    France to investigate 76 mosques suspected of ‘separatism’

    Interior minister’s crackdown is the latest move by the Macron government to target Islamists

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    News in-depthAustria
    What is behind Austria’s plan to outlaw ‘political Islam’?

    Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s response to Vienna shooting as much a cultural question as a security one, analysts say

  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
    Labour Party UK
    Starmer refuses to readmit Corbyn to Parliamentary Labour party

    Move puts UK opposition leader at odds with predecessor’s many grassroots supporters

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    Labour Party UK
    Corbyn readmitted to Labour after suspension over anti-Semitism report

    NEC panel decision welcomed by supporters but criticised by Jewish community and politicians on both sides

  • Saturday, 7 November, 2020
    Olivier Roy
    French battle against Islamist ‘separatism’ at odds with commitment to liberty

    What does it mean to impose ‘republican values’ on a society that lauds freedom of belief?

  • Tuesday, 3 November, 2020
    Magdalena Miecznicka
    Polish protesters are aghast at abortion ban’s moral hypocrisy

    Apostasy has become the word of the moment as a rebellious political awakening takes off

  • Tuesday, 3 November, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Pakistan’s search for identity

    Three books by western journalists underline the terrible toll the religious-based nation has faced since independence

  • Monday, 2 November, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    UAE minister backs Macron on Muslim integration

    Anwar Gargash supports French president’s stance and blames Erdogan for fanning discord

  • Sunday, 1 November, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Emmanuel Macron, secularism and Islam

    France battles a new wave of horrific attacks

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    News in-depthTerrorism in France
    Erdogan tilts at Macron as France mourns victims of terror

    Turkish president leads charge as anti-French protests spread across Muslim world

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    Person in the News
    Wilton Gregory, a fearless churchman

    The first African-American cardinal is close to Pope Francis’s thinking

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    Labour Party UK
    Starmer pleads against Labour ‘civil war’ over Corbyn suspension

    Party leader faces backlash over decision against his predecessor

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Ending a sorry chapter in Labour history

    Starmer team had little choice but to suspend the former leader from the party

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    Labour Party UK
    Labour party suspends Jeremy Corbyn over anti-Semitism report

    Leader Keir Starmer acts after predecessor’s response to findings of inquiry

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    News in-depthPoland
    Polish abortion protests shake Catholic Church

    Ruling party calls on supporters to defend places of worship as opposition to court ruling on terminations spreads

  • Wednesday, 21 October, 2020
    Catholic Church
    Pope challenges church orthodoxy by voicing support for gay unions

    Liberalising move is likely to delight Catholic reformers but anger religious conservatives

  • Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
    David Gardner
    Why the Pope might tacitly support Joe Biden for US president

    If he wins, the Democratic candidate would be the first Catholic in office since JFK

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