The disestablishment of the church is now necessary and inevitable
Source: The Guardian By Giles Fraser The Church of England is woefully unprepared for the ideological winter that is to come. For too long we have been made content by […]
‘Anti-Semitic’ gang robbed Paris Jewish family
Source: BBC News French police are trying to find a gang who took a Jewish family hostage in their suburban Paris home, in what is seen as an anti-Semitic attack. […]
German job centres discriminate against people with foreign-sounding names: study
The Local news@thelocal.de 8 September 2017 File photo of the job centre in Leipzig: DPA. When dealing with inquiries, employees at job centres in Germany tend to discriminate against people with names that sound foreign, according to a report released on Friday. Researchers from the Social Science Research Centre in […]
Hostility towards Muslims on the rise in Switzerland
Photo: kagemusha/Depositphotos Hostility and discrimination towards Muslim people in Switzerland is on the rise, the Federal Commission against Racism (FCR) said on Monday during a conference at the University of Fribourg. The conference, organized by Fribourg University, religion researchers at the University of Lucerne and the Swiss Centre for Islam […]
AfD leader called Merkel ‘a pig tasked by WWII victors to keep Germany down’: report
Source: The Local Alice Weidel is supposed to be the moderate face of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. But newspaper Welt am Sonntag claims to have seen an email which shows her true face.The Welt am Sonntag reports that a former associate of Weidel’s forwarded them an email […]
Stemming the Flow Why Europe’s Migrant Strategy Is an Illusion
Europe hopes that the fates of African migrants will soon be decided at facilities in Chad or Niger. It is a wonderful idea, but also a misleading illusion. In truth, Europe’s primary focus is on shutting down the Mediterranean route. By Mirco Keilberth, Peter Müller and Maximilian Popp […]
Where Dreams Come to Die Migrant Path in Europe Ends at Brenner Pass
Migrants who make it across the Mediterranean to Italy dream of continuing on to northern Europe. Most, though, are unable to make it past the Brenner Pass. A visit to Europe’s waiting room. By Fiona Ehlers Photos Gianmarco Maraviglia / DER SPIEGEL September 07, 2017 The train station […]
After what British immigration officials did to my girlfriend, I’m done – I’ve applied for an Irish passport
An arbitrary decision by a mean-minded individual cost me close to £1,000 – and marked out my girlfriend as ‘refused entry to the UK’ in her passport forever. Ever since the Brexit vote, this sort of meanness and anti-immigration atmosphere has taken hold. I’m sick of it PAT BUTCHER 17 comments […]
Merkel warns of consequences for EU asylum laggards
Source: The Local Countries that fail to take part in the quota scheme for assigning asylum seekers around the European Union could themselves be denied help in other areas, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday. “If there is no solidarity on migration, neither will there be in other areas — […]
305 Syrian migrants reach Cyprus; 313 are stopped in Turkey
By The Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus — Sep 10, 2017 Cyprus police arrested a 36-year-old man Sunday for allegedly driving one of two boats that brought 305 Syrian refugees to the Mediterranean island’s northwestern coast. Police spokesman Michalis Ioannou said the 202 men, 30 women and 73 children arrived […]
Fribourg ‘Five-star’ mosque planned in western Switzerland
By Samuel Jaberg, Stefania Summermatter This content was published on August 23, 2017 The cost of the mosque is expected to be around CHF8 million (http://www.mosqueefribourg.ch) A Muslim association is planning to construct a luxurious mosque in canton Fribourg. The five-storey building will house two prayer rooms, a school, […]
I’m 94 years old, I fought in the Second World War and I have a serious warning about where 2017 is headed
I am an old man in the apogee of my days and that’s why I know we are on the cusp of war – if not in North Korea then somewhere else – simply because of the way we have allowed society to become. As a young man in uniform, […]
Survey: immigrants in Switzerland are happy to be here
The Local news@thelocal.ch 25 July 2017 Photo: rawpixel/Depositphotos More than a third of immigrants living in Switzerland say they have experienced discrimination, but most feel their lives have improved here, […]
Turkish-German relations: To bitter divorce?
Columns Sinem Cengiz | Published — Friday 8 September 2017 Once again an EU country faces a critical election, and as usual Turkey, a candidate country for accession to the bloc, is being used as a tool in political campaigning. Germany, Europe’s most populous country, will hold a national election […]
Contemporary Turkish photographers depict Turkey’s unrest and upheavals
From the construction boom to violence against women, refugees to the Gezi protests: a Berlin exhibition of modern Turkish photography captures the Bosphorus nation’s turmoil through journalistic yet artistic images. […]
Of course British Muslims are being held back. This is an Islamophobic country
Source: The Guardian BY Shaista Aziz The government’s study into the social mobility challenges faced by young British Muslims once again shines a troubling spotlight on how race, class, Islamophobia and […]
Conversions From Islam in Europe and Beyond
By FAISAL DEVJI AUG. 15, 2017 OXFORD, England — The conversion of Muslims to liberalism, secularism or atheism has become something of a meme in the West, with arguments raging among scholars, in the press and on social media about the possibility of Islam’s undergoing a “reformation” or becoming “modern,” […]
After 500 Years, Reformation-Era Divisions Have Lost Much of Their Potency
Source; Pew Research Center As Protestants prepare to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, new Pew Research Center surveys show that in both Western Europe and the United States, the theological differences that split Western Christianity in the 1500s have diminished to a degree that might have shocked Christians […]
First cathedral for Mother Teresa is consecrated in Kosovo
Source: Religion News Service By Valerie Plesch PRISTINA, Kosovo (RNS) — Twenty years after the death of St. Teresa of Calcutta, thousands of Christians and Muslims came together to celebrate the consecration, […]
Top EU court says Hungary, Slovakia cannot refuse to take refugees
REUTERS LUXEMBOURG Reuters Photo The top court of the European Union roundly rejected complaints from Slovakia and Hungary about the EU migration policy Wednesday, upholding Brussels’ right to force member states to accept asylum seekers. In the latest twist to a divisive dispute that broke out two years ago […]