Source: The Washington Post By Michael Birnbaum November 28 BRUSSELS — A Belgian court announced Tuesday that it had struck down an effort to deport an imam at Belgium’s oldest mosque, saying that […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Francis X. Rocca Oct. 27, 2017 5:30 a.m. ET VATICAN CITY—A chain of Catholic psychiatric hospitals in Belgium is granting euthanasia to non-terminal patients, […]
Source: The Economist LIKE much else in Belgium, the administration of the country’s second-largest religion is in a rather chaotic state, and things could get worse. In a kingdom of […]
Reuters International This content was published on October 3, 2017 (reuters_tickers) BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgium took steps to expel a Saudi imam who preaches at the country’s biggest mosque for […]
A Visitor walks by an installation by Haitian artist Jean Ulrick Desert, titled The Burqa Project-On The Borders of My Dreams I Encountered My Double’s Ghost for an exhibition “Islam, […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD Yesterday VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Belgian religious congregation is defying Pope Francis’ order to stop allowing euthanasia in its psychiatric hospitals, saying that […]
Source: BBC News The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Belgium’s ban on face veils does not violate the European Convention on Human Rights. It was a ruling […]
Source: BBC News A man suspected of setting off a bomb at Brussels Central Station on Tuesday has been identified as a 36-year-old Moroccan from a city district that has […]
Source: BBC “If Potus leaves here with the idea that the EU is in some way useful, that’s it. Job done.” The words of a trusted European source when I asked about EU expectations for Donald Trump’s first trip to Brussels as US president. Not a far-reaching ambition, I think […]
Source:BBC US President Donald Trump has given Nato leaders a dressing down over not paying enough into the military alliance. Ahead of his speech in Brussels, he was filmed apparently pushing the Montenegrin president aside. More:
by SAPHORA SMITH Protesters carry effigies of President Donald Trump and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel during a rally in Brussels on Wednesday. Eric Feferberg / AFP – Getty I […]
Source: The Economist A new law in Belgium shows why disputes over faith-based slaughter touch a sensitive nerve THERE are some religious-freedom arguments where even the time-honoured principle of “live […]
Reuters International MAR 30, 2017 BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The Muslim and Jewish communities in Flanders have criticised a proposal by the Belgian region to ban the unstunned slaughter of small animals, which they say would contravene their rules for ritual killing. Under the draft law, animals like Sheep and poultry […]
Reuters International MAR 21, 2017 – Belgian police officers Ann Vercammen (L) and Tarek Chatt patrol at a market in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, Belgium August 18, 2016. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir (reuters_tickers) By Alissa de Carbonnel BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Tarek Chatt says he is one of only two Brussels policemen […]
Source: The Guardian The right of Muslim women to wear the headscarf and full-face veil in workplaces and public spaces has never been under greater scrutiny. It is a right […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL File Photo Yves Chandelon, the chief auditor of NATO relating to terrorism financing and money laundering, has been found dead in his car in an incident that raises suspicions. 62-year-old Chandelon’s death, resembling a suicide with a shot fired to his head, occurred on Dec. 16 and […]
WORLD by LORI HINNANT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Posted Oct 8, 2016 Laura Passoni talks during an interview with the Associated Press in an hotel in Brussels on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Passoni, a Belgian woman who joined Islamic State with her 4-year-old son and later escaped has written a book […]
Source: BBC A terminally-ill 17-year-old has become the first minor to be helped to die in Belgium since age restrictions on euthanasia requests were removed two years ago, officials say. […]
Source. BBC Two police officers have been injured by a machete-wielding assailant in the Belgian city of Charleroi. The attacker was shot and wounded, Charleroi police said on Twitter (in French). The assailant is said to have shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great” in Arabic) during the assault outside the city’s main […]
Mourad Laachraoui was left ‘devastated’ by his brother’s actions. Photo: Emmanual Dunand/AFP Published: 20 May 2016 15:28 GMT+02:00 Belgian Mourad Laachraoui, the younger brother of one of the Brussels airport bombers, has won gold in the European Taekwondo Championships and will compete in this summer’s Olympics. Switzerland condemns Brussels attacks […]