Religious Symbols Take Center Stage

Clash of Civilization

2018-05-03 / www.spiegel.de

...Helmholtzplatz, a micro-neighborhood in Berlin, is one of the capital city's best-known blocks. Locals like to call Helmholtzplatz, the square from which the area gets its name, Helmi and it is a hub of tolerance and the international lifestyle, evidenced ...

Christianity in Europe As French Catholics hail a martyr, the faith is fading in Europe

Religion

2018-03-26 / www.economist.com

The sense of “default Christianity” is vanishing

EVEN in Europe, the world’s least religious continent, a dramatic turn of events can turn a little-known public servant into a posthumous hero hailed as a kind of modern martyr.

Arnaud Beltrame, a police colonel, ...

Roman Empire

civilization

2018-03-22 / www.ancient.eu

The Roman Empire, at its height (c. 117 CE), was the most extensive political and social structure in western civilization. By 285 CE the empire had grown too vast to be ruled from the central government at Rome and so ...