Some converts state that they converted to Islam because of the role that some Catholic and Protestant leaders played in the genocide.

Civil society s support for bridging the psychological gap between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland helped pave the way to peace.

In recent decades, Roman Catholic and Protestant leaders failed to speak out early and effectively against the genocide in Rwanda.

Nor does religion play a discernible role while Roman Catholics used to fear independence as being liable to result in Protestant hegemony, today Catholics and Protestants are roughly equal in their support of Scotland s institutions.

I was in Ireland during the Troubles, 10 years ago, and I was working with some Catholic and Protestant kids on conflict resolution. And I did this with them a risky thing to do, because they were street kids.

What started as a revolution in the eighteenth century meaning of the term is becoming a reproduction of the religious wars that ravaged Europe from 1524 to 1648, pitting Catholics and Protestants against each other in the same way that Sunnis and Shia are pitted against each other today.