Maroc
"Les attaques des islamistes marocains contre les femmes se poursuivent. La toute dernière est l’œuvre d’Ahmed Raissouni, confortablement installé au Qatar" — Maroc : Le religieux Ahmed Raissouni s’attaque aux femmes de la modernité (Mohammed Jaabouk, Yabiladi.com)
France
"Une filière d'acheminement vers la Syrie de djihadistes présumés a été démantelée lundi 15 décembre au matin en France, principalement dans la région de Toulouse, notamment dans le Tarn, indique une source policière. Des interpellations ont également eu lieu en région parisienne et en Normandie" — Interpellations au sein d'une filière de recrutement pour le djihad en Syrie (Le Monde, AFP)
"Selon l’enquête Ifop publiée dimanche 14 décembre dans Ouest-France, 71 % des sondés considèrent que les crèches de Noël constituent « plus un élément de tradition culturelle qu’un symbole chrétien" — Sept Français sur dix pour la présence de crèches dans les bâtiments publics (La Croix, AFP)
Autriche
"The Roman Catholic Church in Australia acknowledged that “obligatory celibacy” may have contributed to decades of clerical sexual abuse of children in what may be the first such admission by church officials around the world. A church advisory group called the Truth, Justice and Healing Council made the startling admission Friday Dec. 12 in a report to the government’s Royal Commission, which is examining thousands of cases of abuse in Australia. The report attacked church culture and the impact of what it called 'obedience and closed environments' in some religious orders and institutions" — Catholic Church In Australia : ‘Obligatory Celibacy May Have Contributed To Abuse’ (Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service/Huffington Post)
Pologne
"It has only been a few days since the central exhibition of Polin, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, opened to the public. The museum is located in the place where, between 1940 and 1943, the Nazis imprisoned roughly half a million people in a place of death and destruction: the Warsaw Ghetto. The Warsaw museum has arrived to fill a void that the Holocaust Museum in Washington was unable to address. Whereas the North American museum deals with the death factories, the immense crimes perpetrated by the Nazis, and an end to the story of European Judaism, the Warsaw museum, by contrast, is focused most of all on life - on the reality of a people and a religion in the middle of Europe" — What Poland’s Jewish History Can Teach Us (José M. Faraldo, Huffington Post)
Belgique
"Il va falloir s’y habituer : Rome, ou plutôt le pape François, aime envoyer des questionnaires aux catholiques. Un premier questionnaire avait été publié avant le premier synode sur la famille en 2014. Le pape François récidive, et consulte de nouveau les catholiques du monde entier avec un ensemble de questions dont on vient d’avoir la traduction en Français" — Synode sur la famille, un nouveau questionnaire pour quoi faire ? (Isabelle de Gaulmyn, La Croix)
Islam
The Islamic State has visibly attracted young Muslims from all over the world to its violent movement to build a caliphate in Iraq and Syria. But here’s what’s less visible — the online backlash against the Islamic State, by young Muslims declaring their opposition to rule by Islamic law, or Shariah, and even proudly avowing their atheism. Nadia Oweidat, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, who tracks how Arab youths use the Internet, says the phenomenon “is mushrooming — the brutality of the Islamic State is exacerbating the issue and even pushing some young Muslims away from Islam” — How ISIS Drives Muslims From Islam (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times)