Julia Bicknell

By Julia Bicknell A football match in Prague, involving former international players, was the centrepiece at an international conference held in the Czechia last week, illustrating how team spirit can build positive relationships. The exhibition match at the Great Strahov Stadium, organised in collaboration with AC Sparta Prague, was designed to engage young people in the cause of the freedom of religion and belief.

By Julia Bicknell A football match in Prague, involving former international players, was the centrepiece at an international conference held in the Czechia last week, illustrating how team spirit can build positive relationships. The exhibition match at the Great Strahov Stadium, organised in collaboration with AC Sparta Prague, was designed to engage young people in the cause of the freedom of religion and belief.

As we wound up the road through the mid-Atlas hills in Morocco and turned into the clearing where the abandoned monastery lay, my mind immediately turned to one of the most moving and powerful films I’ve ever seen: “Of Gods and Men,” which won the Cannes Grand Prix in 2010, and the best film in France’s Cesar Awards 2011 - about a similar monastery in Algeria. I was in BBC World News when the real events dramatized in this film happened.