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Saudi women gear up for new freedom as driving ban ends

Posted on June 24, 2018 By Faith Matters

Women will hit the roads in Saudi Arabia on Sunday with the lifting of the world’s last ban on female drivers, long seen as an […]

Sting blasts leaders as ‘cowards’ over migration crisis

Posted on June 24, 2018 By Faith Matters

British singer and actor Sting called world leaders “half men and cowards” on Saturday for their inability to solve the refugee crisis. German Chancellor Angela […]

European human rights court rejects appeal by Norwegian mass killer

Posted on June 21, 2018 By Faith Matters

The European Court of Human Rights rejected on Thursday an appeal by Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik who says his near-isolation in prison amounts […]

Italian interior minister wants census of Roma communities

Posted on June 19, 2018 By Faith Matters

Italy’s new government plans to carry out a census of the Roma community with an eye to kicking out anyone staying in the country illegally, […]

Londoners mark anniversary of mosque attack with minute’s silence

Posted on June 19, 2018 By Faith Matters

Senior British political figures joined faith and community leaders on Tuesday to commemorate the anniversary of an attack by a far-right extremist who drove a […]

France’s National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen hospitalised

Posted on June 15, 2018 By Faith Matters

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the former leader of France’s far right National Front party, has been hospitalised for exhaustion ahead of a trial in which he […]

Petition Calling For Action on Controversial Polish Historian Gaining Ground

Posted on June 11, 2018 By Faith Matters

A petition calling on a Polish ‘book fair’ to remove a controversial historian with links to the extreme-right has gained hundreds of signatures from Poles […]