Exorcism in Italy a job ‘too scary’ for young priests
Source: BBC By James Reynolds “That is a possessed woman there,” says Fr Vincenzo Taraborelli as he points up to an 18th Century fresco in his Roman church. “They’re holding […]
How Irish Women Are Getting Around Abortion Laws
Source: Motto By Alexandra Sifferlin The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have some of the most restrictive laws surrounding abortion in the world. The procedure is illegal in both […]
Armed clowns rob pizza joint outside Berlin
Source: The Local Late on Sunday, three masked men – two of whom were wearing clown masks – raided a pizza shop in Potsdam, according to a police report.One worker was tasered during the violent robbery, and had to be treated at the scene by emergency services. The men threatened other […]
Nazi Grandma’ sent to jail again for Holocaust denial
Source: The Local Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel, 87, has been sentenced by a district court in Bad Oeynhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, to 11 months imprisonment without parole, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Tuesday.Haverbeck-Wetzel was convicted for the crime of incitement of hatred for denying the Holocaust in a letter she sent to the Central Council […]
800 crimes against refugee homes reported this year
Source: The Local The number of crimes committed against refugee homes has increased across the country, reaching 797 cases so far this year, according to BKA figures seen by publishing group Funke Mediengruppe. The overwhelming majority of these cases – 740 – were perpetrated by “right-wing motivated offenders”, including neo-Nazis.As Germany […]
Syria now on the table as Putin comes to Berlin
Source: The Local France on Tuesday confirmed that the French, Russian and German leaders will hold a “working meeting” on the Syrian crisis in Berlin, in addition to discussing the ongoing conflict in Ukraine with the country’s president, Petro Poroshenko. Host Chancellor Angela Merkel said the Ukraine talks would be aimed at “offering a brutally […]
Asylum requests in Switzerland tumble
OCT 18, 2016 – Asylum seekers play cards in a chalet near Villars-sur-Ollon in the Vaud Alps (Keystone) Requests for asylum in Switzerland were down by almost half in the third quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2015, the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) reported […]
THE DALAI LAMA IN SWITZERLAND
Pilgrimage from China to Oerlikon By Thomas Kern, Luigi Jorio POLITICS Religion Several thousand people gathered in Zurich on October 14 to see the Dalai Lama, the highest authority in […]
Church of England could drop legal requirement for weekly Sunday services
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood; Religion correspondent The Church of England is considering dropping its legal requirement to hold weekly Sunday services in churches with small and declining congregations. […]
RT: NatWest ‘freezes Russian channel’s UK bank accounts’
Image copyrightRUSSIA TODAYImage captionBroadcaster RT is backed by the Kremlin NatWest bank has frozen the accounts of Russia’s state-run broadcaster RT, its editor-in-chief says. Margarita Simonyan tweeted: “They’ve closed our accounts in Britain. All our accounts. ‘The decision is not subject to review.’ Praise be to freedom of speech!” RT […]
The Euro and Its Threat to the Future of Europe by Joseph Stiglitz – book review
The economist exposes the flaws of the common currency, but his solutions for reform don’t convince A protester burns a euro note during a demonstration in Athens, June 2015. Photograph: Reuters John Kampfner Monday 22 August 2016 It’s two months since Britain’s worst foreign policy blunder of the modern era […]
The Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Arrives in Ottawa
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad to address Parliamentarians in Canada’s capital city. On 15 October 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad arrived in Canada’s capital city Ottawa. His Holiness arrived at the Baitul Naseer Mosque at 7.50pm where […]
The Christian Myth Still Haunting Pompeii
Source: The Daily Beast In 79 C.E. Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in thick layers of volcanic ash. There was no time to suffocate; most died not from the poisonous gas but were instead flash-heated into immediate rigor mortis. The eruption froze the final […]
Refugees Can Make Great Entrepreneurs. Here’s How We Can Help Them.
10/14/2016 Sophia von Bonin Co-founder of Re:Start CARSTEN KOALL VIA GETTY IMAGES What if we viewed the influx of refugees into Germany as an opportunity rather than a crisis? This was the question I asked myself, together with a group of young Berliners, when over 800,000 refugees arrived in Germany last […]
Swiss to vote on passport rules for 3rd gen foreigners
File photo: Martin Abegglen Published: 12 Oct 2016 The Swiss people will go to the polls next February to vote on whether it should be easier for third generation immigrants […]
Jihad losing appeal, says Swiss intelligence chief
ISLAMIC STATE OCT 15, 2016 – Since 2001, 77 Swiss have left the country for conflict regions to take part in jihad (Keystone) According to Markus Seiler, head of the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS), hardly anyone from Switzerland wants to join the Islamic State (IS) anymore. In an interview with […]
A beautiful mosque and the dark period of the Armenian genocide
The city of Gaziantep and the ‘Liberation’ mosque is a milestone on the journey between one great crime of the 20th century, and another seen during the Second World War Robert Fisk Gaziantep @indyvoices The ‘Liberation’ Mosque is a fine, neo-classical, almost Gothic construction with striped black-and-white stone banding, unusual […]
Germany threatens Facebook with hate speech law
Source: The Local The threat from Volker Kauder, a key member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, follows a similar warning by Justice Minister Heiko Maas, in a growing sign of German politicians’ frustration with such websites.”The time for round-tables is over. I’ve run out of patience,” said Volker Kauder, chairman […]
70 Years Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in Switzerland – Open Day Mahmud Moschee Zurich
It was just one year after the second world war ended, which brought death and destruction over Europe, when three young Muslim Missionaries from British India, arriving via England, stopped over in Switzerland on 13th October 1946. The actual destination was Germany, but at that moment the entry was […]
The late Thai king’s youth in Switzerland
BHUMIBOL OBITUARY The late Thai king’s youth in Switzerland By Luigi Jorio OCT 13, 2016 King Bhumibol of Thailand, who reigned for seven decades, died in hospital aged 88(Keystone) Thailand’s […]