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Participants take part in a demonstration called by anti-immigration group PEGIDA, a German abbreviation for "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West", in Dresden January 5, 2015.

Never mind the cross, Germany’s ‘anti-Islamization’ movement isn’t really Christian

February 12, 2015Belief

Far-right protesters with the “anti-Islamization” movement in Germany called PEGIDA like to wave the national flag. They also hold up the cross. But that doesn’t mean it’s a Christian movement.

Vehicles burn after two car bombs exploded in the Karm al-Louz neighbourhood in Homs.

Why some rebels are ‘determined to make a last stand’ in the Syrian city of Homs

April 22, 2014Conflict & Justice

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