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Many in Muslim world want sharia as law of the land – Pew Forum survey

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(A man prays outside a mosque in Banda Aceh December 5, 2012. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj )

Large majorities in the Muslim world want the Islamic legal and moral code of sharia as the official law in their countries, but they disagree on what it includes and who should be subject to it, an extensive new survey says.

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Ex-Catholic has no right to keep his Church job, German court rules

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(A sign reading ‘Arbeitsgerichte’ (Labour courts) is pictured in the late evening in Hamburg September 1, 2012. REUTERS/Morris Mac Matzen )

Germany’s top labor court ruled on Thursday the country’s Catholic charity network had the right to fire an employee who quit the Church in protest against the sexual abuse crisis and disputed decisions by ex-Pope Benedict.

Apr 25, 2013

Ex-Catholic has no right to Church job: German court

PARIS (Reuters) – Germany’s top labor court ruled on Thursday the country’s Catholic charity network had the right to fire an employee who quit the Church in protest against the sexual abuse crisis and disputed decisions by ex-Pope Benedict.

The 60-year-old teacher, challenging his 2011 dismissal, had claimed his constitutional right to freedom of opinion trumped the Church’s right to employ only Catholics who agreed with the religious mission of their jobs.

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    • About Tom

      "As Religion Editor, my job is to coordinate religion news coverage with our bureaus around the world. Based in Paris, I also run our FaithWorld blog and report mostly about Christianity and Islam in Europe and related moral issues such as bioethics. Since joining Reuters in 1977 in London, I've been a correspondent, bureau chief and editor in Vienna, Geneva, Islamabad, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Bonn and Paris. My book Unchained Eagle: Germany after the Wall was published in 2000. In 2006, I received the European Religion Writer of the Year award."
      Joined Reuters:
      1977
      Awards:
      European Religion Writer of the Year, 2006
      Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellow, 2006
      Coolidge Scholar ARIL, 2008, 2010
    • More from Tom

      Publications:
      BOOK:
      Unchained Eagle: Germany after the Wall
      Pearson Education 2000
      CHAPTERS IN REUTERS BOOKS:
      "Patterns of Belief" in The State of the World
      Thames & Hudson, 2006
      "A Paradoxical Papacy" in Pope John Paul II:
      Reaching out across Borders

      Prentice Hall 2003
      "The Tormented State" in Afghanistan: Lifting the
      Veil
       Prentice Hall 2002
      "The Fall of the Berlin Wall" in Frontlines:
      Snapshots of History
       Pearson Education 2001
      "Germany" in EMU Explained: Markets and
      Monetary Union

      Kogan Page 1997
      CHAPTERS IN OTHER BOOKS:
      "The first and second drafts of history" in
      International News viewed from France
      Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle 2007
      "The Changing World of the Foreign Correspondent" in
      Media Cultures Universitätsverlag Winter 2007
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