Posted on Thu, February 10, 2011 at 02:03 am CET
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WikiLeaks: Vatican Says No to Ahmadinejad Papal Audience

Holy See Undersecretary for Relations with States Monsignor Pietro Parolin told Ambassador that Pope Benedict would not receive Iranian President Ahmadinejad… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Iran • The Vatican • United States of America • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Wed, February 2, 2011 at 22:38 pm CET
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What’s Really Wrong with Western Understanding of the Middle East?

Rarely has a mass media article shaken me up as this one does. It is a rare, intense, view of what the Middle East is really like nowadays, though it is about Pakistan, on the eastern end of the region… Continue reading

Topics: Egyptian Revolution • Global Jihad • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Pakistan • The Middle East 
Posted on Sat, January 1, 2011 at 12:34 pm CET
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WikiLeaks: Pope Wanted Muslim Turkey Kept Out of EU

In 2004 Cardinal Ratzinger, the future pope, spoke out against letting a Muslim state join, although at the time the Vatican was formally neutral on the question… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Europe • Global Islam • The Vatican • Turkey • United States of America • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Thu, December 30, 2010 at 22:37 pm CET
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WikiLeaks: Ahmadinejad Ordered Capture of British Servicemen ‘For Domestic Reasons’

In conversations with foreign ministry officials in Brunei, US diplomats hear what their counterparts believe was behind the capture of 15 British servicemen and women by Iran earlier in the month. The Brunei officials say they think… Continue reading

Topics: Bahrain • Britain • Iran • Iraq • Oman • The Vatican • United States of America • WikiLeaks