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The Israeli Civil Administration and Israeli border police demolish a home in Al-Jawaya, a village in the Masafer Yatta region of the southern West Bank, in May 2024.

Middle East

Living between hope and helplessness

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by Kim Berg
It is too early to tell whether he will prove sectarian or pluralist: HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa speaking in the Umayyad Mosque on 8 December.

Islamist ideologies

Fundamentally different fundamentalists

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by Hans Dembowski
Church development cooperation is not necessarily about praying: farmers at a coffee field school in Indonesia sharing a meal.

Church development cooperation

Hope is a resource

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by Dagmar Pruin
by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
“Indigenous land is not farmland”: protest during a summit of Amazonian governments in Belém, Brazil, in the summer of 2023.

Human rights

How indigenous spirituality matters

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by Frank Schwabe
by Hans Dembowski
During his swearing-in ceremony in September, Anura Kumara Dissanayake reached out to Buddhist monks, as well as to Christian, Hindu and Muslim faith leaders. …

New coalition

Faith identities in Sri Lankan politics

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by Arjuna Ranawana
Netanyahu addressing the UN General Assembly in September.

Our view

Self-righteous aggressiveness versus universal values

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by Hans Dembowski
The Islamist regime is enforcing a repressive dress code, including in Kabul.

Gender justice

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women

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by Khushboo Srivastava
Dada Daagbo Hounon Hounan II, the Supreme Spiritual Voodoo Chief, in his palace in Ouidah last year.

Syncretism

Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos

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by Karim Okanla
Powerful military celebrating of the “Defence Day” in Lahore in September 2024.

South Asia

In Pakistan, authoritarian attitudes are a colonial legacy

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by Muhammad Nawfal Saleemi
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