This video portrays football superstar Liverpool FC striker Mohamed Salah as a positive role model for kids in Egypt. As an openly Muslim athlete, he plays a pivotal role in reshaping negative perceptions of Islam in the UK and ...
In the Augsburg Peace of Religion treaty of 1555, the envoys of the German states and cities agreed on accepting only the Catholic or the Lutheran confession in their territories. Subjects adhering to the other belief were allowed to emigrate. ...
In the Augsburg Peace treaty, the negotiators agreed on not using war and violence any more to solve the religious dissent between the Catholic and the Lutheran side: Ԥ15-16: In order for religious peace to be maintained ...
In the Augsburg Religious peace treaty, the negotiators agreed on a peace without deciding about the question of religion in the first place: §9-10: It quickly became apparent during the consultation that the negotiations on the ...
After the Alhambra Decree (March 1492) and the expulsion of the Sephardi Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, Sultan Bayezid II (1447-1512) seized the opportunity to resettle the expelled community. The Sephardic migrations from Spain to the Ottoman ...
Article 9 of the 1950 Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms reads as follows: ‘Freedom of thought, conscience and religion: 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and ...
Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights does not define the word ‘religion’. The flexibility of the term, as shown in the ECHR’s Guide on Article 9, is ‘quite logical’. On one hand, the article’s definition of ‘religion’ ...
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFREU) was solemnly proclaimed in December 2000 at the Intergovernmental Conference held in Nice, France – the formal procedure of negotiating amendments to the founding treaties of the EU. ...
In 2011, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights issued a report titled ‘Respect for and protection of persons belonging to minorities 2008-2010’. The report addressed matters related to the principles of non-discrimination and ...
In early modern Europe, religious festivities determined the rhythm of everyday life. The celebration of Easter, the Assumption and Pentecost were important moments on the religious calendar. Protestants and Catholics shared some of these feast ...
Marriages are often regulated from both a civic and a religious perspective. In the Religioensvrede, the fourteenth article provided rules on marriage. It states that earlier Catholic rules should be maintained for the whole Low Countries. ...
The Religioensvrede was intended to apply to the whole of the Low Countries. The early modern Low Countries roughly match contemporary Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as parts of France and Luxembourg. In the late Middle Ages and the sixteenth ...
The following is a liberal translation from the original into more modern, understandable English: To avoid and prevent discord and debate, it has been ordered that anyone can adhere to either of the two religions (Catholic or ...
The Religioensvrede (1578) sought to facilitate the coexistence of Catholicism and the new religious confessions known as the Reformation. The Reformation was a group of movements that tried to reform the religious teachings, practices and ...
In regard to the marriages, funerals, and other ‘rites de passage’, the On the Same Side documentary TV show focuses generally on the customs of the Orthodox Christians and Muslims in contemporary North Macedonia. Apart from the presentation of ...
