Topic: Denmark

One killed in shooting near Copenhagen mosque

A shooting outside a Copenhagen mosque killed one person and wounded another Tuesday as Pakistani worshippers were celebrating the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, police said."I can confirm that one person has been killed and another wounded," Copenhagen Police Chief ...
Denmark will next week host a seminar aiming to promote dialogue between different religious groups in Iraq, the foreign Minister said Monday."I have ... taken the initiative for Denmark to host next week a seminar with the participation of religious leaders from ...

US cable reveals Vatican 'green' lobbying efforts

The Vatican agreed to help the United States in behind-the-scenes lobbying of states to join the Copenhagen Accord on climate change, a US embassy cable published by WikiLeaks showed Thursday.The cable reported a meeting between diplomats at the US embassy to the ...
Children skip across the roof of a mosque and play hide and seek in a Hindu temple: this unsual playground is designed to build tolerance as religious relations are cooling in Denmark.Volunteers from various faiths in Fredericia helped to create the seaside ...

The Middle Ages

Denmark's first literature appeared in inscriptions, using the runic alphabet, that were scratched on stone or carved in metal, mainly epitaphs of warriors, kings, and priests that occasionally had short unrhymed alliterative verses in the Viking spirit. The medieval ballads of Denmark ...
"Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it" When dealing with depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, people take matters too seriously. Specifically with satirical depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, people go to distant ends of the spectrum to prove their ...

Being Good, Religiously

One of the more self-evidently stupid arguments that anyone could make on behalf of religion is that people need religion to be moral. Phil Zuckerman writes about Denmark, a nation largely indifferent to religion, that it is "rational, humane, civil, safe, and ...

SEO: How the Content Can be Treated?

We live in the time of instant mass communications, where information can be transmitted by all modern means of communications such as radio, TV and internet. However, mass media in Western society should exercise some cautions on several sensitive topics and subjects ...
Conflict between European artists and Muslims fuels concern about a clash of civilizations With the West locked in conflicts across the Muslim world, why would anyone throw fuel on the fire?Swedish artist Lars Vilks says he was defending freedom of speech when ...
Danish newspaper apologizes for offense caused by reprint of Prophet Muhammad drawing A Danish newspaper on Friday apologized for offending Muslims by reprinting a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban, rekindling heated debate about the limits of freedom of ...
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