Christianity
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THE 10 DAYS OF EUROPE | 2: Saddle those horses
25 December 20103682 Presseurop -
Belgium: Paedophilia report shakes Church
13 September 2010PresseuropLe Soir -
Poland: Warsaw’s cross row
10 August 2010PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Religion and State : Burqa, the cross we must bear
21 July 201030114 Der Standard Vienna -
A town in Europe: Oberammergau, a passion for the Passion
2 June 201039 Die Zeit Hamburg -
Religion: Half Europe for crucifix, against veil
28 April 2010PresseuropABC -
Easter: St Paul was a leftie
2 April 20101PresseuropNew Statesman -
Paedophilia: European Church in need of redemption
10 March 2010472 El País Madrid -
Religion: MEPs stick up for Christians
22 January 2010PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Sweden : Church greenlights gay marriage
23 October 2009PresseuropDagens Nyheter
Given the political, social and religious confusion that plagues Europe, Spanish philosopher Fernando Savater pleads for a new spirit of openness to talents, ideas and creeds. 
The ban on the burqa in Belgium and France, now spreading to Spain, the UK, and even to universities in Egypt and Syria, points up the hypocrisy and double standards of Western Christian culture, writes German philosopher Andrea Roedig. If the burqa is an instrument of oppression, isn’t the cross we worship really a morbid fascination with torture? 
For nearly four centuries, the inhabitants of this Bavarian village have performed a Passion Play every ten years to ward off the danger of the plague: a highly colourful event, which attracts tourists from all over the world. 
After a wave of similar revelations swept through the United States and Ireland, cases of past child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church and affiliated institutions are cropping up all over the continent. Following cautious and ultimately unsatisfactory reactions from the ecclesiastical top brass and the Vatican, national authorities have been compelled to take action.