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Girls want to have a say too: school girls in Afghanistan.

Women in Islam

Changing gender roles

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by Martina Sabra
Religion is a source of non-governmental influence: Pope Francis meets Fidel Castro.

Faith and development

Religion’s creative potential

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by Bernhard Felmberg
In Burundi, churches play an important role. Germany’s Civil Peace Service is working with them. The husbands of the widows gathered here in a church in Bujumbura died in the civil war.

Faith

How faith shapes politics

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by Bernhard Felmberg
ISIS fighters march in Raqqa, Syria in 2014.

Extremism

“Someone who kills innocent people will not become a martyr”

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Mohammed Fahmy is one of three Al Jazeera journalists who were sentence to three years in prison in late August.

Comment

Press freedom restricted

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by Ingy Salama
The seats in Lebanon’s parliament are allocated in proportion to the religious communities' share of the general population.

Lebanon

Faith-based parliament

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by Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar
“My uterus, my decision”: Thousands demonstrate in Santiago de Chile in early July for a reform to Chile’s abortion law.

Comment

Women’s lost right

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by Cadima Tania
Sunni Saudi Arabia is home to the most important place of pilgrimage for all Muslims, the Kaaba in Mecca.

Confessionalisation

Shiites and Sunnis in political Islam

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by Thomas Birringer
Jordan is one of the most arid countries in the world. GIZ is trying to raise awareness about water scarcity with the help of religious authorities.

Development policy and Islam

Shared objectives

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by Nabiela Farouq
by Ulrich Nitschke
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