A More Secular Europe, Divided By The Cross

Andrew Higgins of The New York Times reports on the religious divides within the European Union as the member-states struggle to forge a common identity. “In a continent divided by many languages, vast differences of culture and economic gaps,” Christianity provides a rare element shared by all nations within the EU. However, “religion has instead become yet another a source of discord.” He writes, “It divides mostly secular Western Europe from profoundly religious nations in the east.”

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