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Theology is the craziest of all academic disciplines. Her research object is inherently unprovable. It is therefore understandable that theology as a science is practiced in fewer and fewer places and is constantly under pressure. But to understand today's complicated world we absolutely cannot do without it.Katya Tolstoy is professor of theology at the Vrije...

Of the thousands of families who have been living in poverty due to a government error, often for years, the majority will probably only be traced and compensated in the course of 2024. Those involved say so NRC.These people have to pay back benefits to which they are entitled, because different income schemes unintentionally get in each other's...

More than three hundred pages of sexually explicit WhatsApp messages to an office employee over a period of three and a half years. “Very explicit material.” Those text messages and photos served as main evidence in a disciplinary case against Marc Overmars, former director of football affairs at Ajax. The disciplinary committee of the Sports Jurisdiction Institute...

“We don't know what will happen after a loud noise, right?” Nikolaj (40) asks his 29-year-old friend Nikita. “On New Year's Eve I drove through the streets of Utrecht and I saw boys setting off firecrackers. I panicked and thought I had to get out of the car and lie on the ground,” Nikita replies. The...

Alexander Zverev looks into the camera with an intense gaze. His face is set, his eyes are slightly narrowed and he holds an outstretched index finger in front of his mouth. This is how the 26-year-old German tennis player, reigning Olympic champion and number 7 in the world rankings, appears in one of the many promotional photos...