As Berlin reconsiders its controversial secularism policy, Europe continues to debate the limits of religious expression in ...

Media rights activist Baris Altintas tells BIRN that Joakim Medin’s arrest on charges of terrorism and insulting the ...

This month marked a grim milestone for Sudan, the unfortunate African country suffering what is considered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The next day, the State Department for the first time ...

Europe’s security requires cooperation with Turkey, but Erdogan’s domestic abuses complicate the relationship. To navigate ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Western secular leaders and religious patriarchs and prelates attended Pope Francis’ globally televised Vatican state funeral in Rome on Saturday. He ...

The arrests put Turkey on the path that Russia has traveled over the past two decades, in which a democratically elected ...

Pope Francis heralded migrant rights, rang alarms over climate change, and served as a bridge toward peace on several continents. He spurred many citizens to action.

It has become clear once again”, Turkey’s president and Europe’s prospective saviour said on April 11th, “that European ...

It likely won't lead to the violence and humiliation of other botched departures, including from the same region in 2019 ...