Questions about religious influences on politics or political influences on religion. Consider using with religion-specific tags, including [islam], [judaism] or [christianity] where appropriate.
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Is there a relation between religion and crime rates?
Each main religion should be listed along with the percantange of their crime rates within the continents of Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. I'm not asking to merge the continents into crime rate percentages base on religion; the stats can…
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Islam and Christianity in Lebanon
In this article was the following.
And the bold line surprised me quite a bit because here it says that some Christian factions are for both Sunni and Shiite parties. Am I mistaken in my understanding?
But why is it possible that Christian parties…
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Police(?) taking relics from a church. What is the background?
In this video one can see police (or some other people in black uniform) taking relics by force from a church. What is the background of the event?
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Why is Catholic Church hurrying to sanctify Mother Theresa?
Note: This question deals with the political dimension of the Vatican City decisions, thus its presence on the Politics site.
According to this article, it takes quite some time for someone to become a saint of the Catholic Church:
The process to…
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Are there political movements that advocate using "Hinduism" as a basis for a society or state?
I know that, according to the West, Islam has a political aspect or agenda and that is called Political Islam.
Political Islam can be understood as a political ideology that promotes the --
"formation of state and society according to their…
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