How Ireland Moved to the Left: ‘The Demise of the Church’
Source: The New York Times By LIAM STACK DEC. 2, 2017 Photo A vigil in Dublin in October commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of Savita Halappanavar, who died after she […]
Gay prayer for Prince George remarks ‘unkind and destructive’
Source: BBC News A senior Anglican minister has been criticised for saying people should pray for Prince George to be gay to help the Church of England recognise same-sex marriage. […]
Tama’s Tales: Where there’s a will, there’s a way
https://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:43710454&locale=en Embed code This content was published on November 30, 2017 5:00 PMNov 30, 2017 – 17:00 (To view video subtitles in English, click on the gear icon and turn captions “on”). Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. This week she talks to Ola, who’s […]
Inside Geneva: Landmine ban: From Utopian vision to global accord
By Imogen Foulkes This content was published on December 3, 2017 An Afghani boy learns to walk again thanks to his prosthesis. ( Handicap International ) In Geneva […]
Muslim student says she was ordered to remove headscarf at McDonald’s
Source: The Guardian By Patrick Greenfield and Kevin Rawlinson Fast food chain apologises to 19-year-old stopped from entering and repeatedly told her to take off hijab McDonald’s said it did not […]
As a Turkish person whose family fled to the UK from Cyprus, I’m excited about Erdogan’s visit to Greece
My mother didn’t want to tell me about the war in Cyprus, so instead I found out one day when a girl at my primary school started yelling racist […]
Trump’s retweets elevate a tiny fringe group of anti-Muslim activists in Britain
Source: The Washington Post By William Booth and Karla Adam November 29 at 8:18 PM LONDON — In a sharp personal rebuke, the British government told President Trump he was “wrong” to retweet on Wednesday […]
Trump hits out at UK PM Theresa May after far-right video tweets
Source: BBC News Donald Trump has told Prime Minister Theresa May to focus on “terrorism” in the UK after she criticised his sharing of far-right videos. “Don’t focus on me, […]
Europe’s Growing Muslim Population
Source: Pew Research Center Muslims are projected to increase as a share of Europe’s population – even with no future migration Migrants who had arrived via buses chartered by Austrian authorities walk towards the border to Germany on October 17, 2015 near Fuchsoedt, Austria. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Deutsch | Français […]
The Growth of Germany’s Muslim Population
Source: Pew Research Center Between 2010 and 2016, the number of Muslims living in Germany rose from 3.3 million (4.1% of the population) to nearly 5 million (6.1%), while the […]
Demographics and religion: Swiss Muslim population to grow, migration or not
By swissinfo.ch November 30, 2017 An employee of a pharmaceutical company in Zurich(Keystone) The Muslim population in Europe will continue to grow over the next several decades even if […]
Ritual slaughtering must be done in approved slaughterhouses – EU court adviser
Reuters International This content was published on November 30, 2017 BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A requirement that ritual slaughtering of animals without stunning must be done in approved slaughterhouses does not curb religious freedom, an EU court adviser said on Thursday, weighing in on a debate watched closely […]
Swiss intelligence says 100 people pose ‘high risk’ to security
30 November 2017 http://www.swissinfo.ch New suspects were jihadists who had been radicalised within Switzerland (Keystone) Around 100 people in Switzerland have been identified as a high risk for national security, […]
German mayor stabbed allegedly for pro-refugee stance
Source: PT Andreas Hollstein, mayor of the German town of Altena, survived a stabbing attack on Monday allegedly for holding a pro-refugee stance. Hollstein, member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, was stabbed in the neck in a kebab shop and was later shifted to the hospital for treatment, BBC reported. “The security […]
Court frees far-right soldier accused of planning attack disguised as refugee
Source: The Local Germany’s top criminal court Wednesday freed a soldier who was allegedly plotting an attack while posing as a Syrian refugee, in a bizarre case that put a spotlight on the 2015 record migrant influx. Posing as a fruit seller from Damascus, German army lieutenant Franco Albrecht, 28, […]
Berlin police seize radioactive playing cards used in gambling scam
Source: The Local Police revealed on Tuesday that just under two weeks ago they uncovered a series of playing cards tainted with radioactive material in Berlin’s Marzahn-Hellersdorf district after a year-long search. Investigations began a year ago when radioactive material was detected at a waste treatment centre in Rüdersdorf during a […]
Bosnian Court To Rule on Police Beards
Source: Balkan Insight The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina was expected on Wednesday to rule on a regulation obliging the Border Police of BiH to shave and on whether this violates their right to manifest their religious belief. The first deputy speaker of parliament’s House of Peoples, Safet Softic, […]
In His Final Act, War Criminal Hijacks Court
Source: Balkan Insight The shocking public suicide of Slobodan Praljak at the Hague Tribunal has overshadowed the significant findings of Croatia’s complicity in mass crimes in Bosnia and has further diminished the legacy of the international court. Wednesday’s reading of the appellate verdict in the case against six Bosnian Croatian defendants was […]
Trump hits out at UK PM Theresa May after far-right video tweets
Source: BBC Donald Trump has told Prime Minister Theresa May to focus on “terrorism” in the UK after she criticised his sharing of far-right videos. “Don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom,” Mr Trump tweeted. The US president […]
Belgian court blocks order to deport imam of Belgium’s largest mosque
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 […]