Source: The Guardian BY Haroon Siddique and agency A Church of England vicar has been fined for a drunken brawl with police during which he swore at an officer and claimed to have diplomatic immunity through the Vatican. Gareth Jones punched, kicked, bit and spat at a police officer and paramedic who […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Muslims in the northern hemisphere face the most challenging Ramadan for more than 30 years, with long summer days creating the shortest possible […]
Source: The New York Times By ALAN COWELL LONDON — In these times of flux and challenge, when Britain’s post-imperial place in a globalized world has rarely been so minutely […]
theguardian — The Adoration of the Magi by Botticelli (1444/5-1510). ‘The huge decline in western Christianity has a much simpler root cause: the perceived claims of what people see as orthodox belief are, literally, incredible to the modern mind’, writes Fr Alec Mitchell. Photograph: Getty Images Your editorial (Imagine no […]
Source: BBC About 340 migrants have been rescued and nine bodies have been pulled from the sea after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, Greek officials say. Others are […]
Source: BBC Floodwaters in Paris continue to rise with the River Seine due to hit a peak of up to 6.5m (21ft) later on Friday. The world-famous Louvre and Orsay […]
Source: Sputnik News According to L’Echo, the lawyer of the Belgian Foreign Ministry will defend a Muslim woman Samira A. who sued her ex-employer G4S Secure Solutions for prohibiting headscarves at work. Earlier the […]
l 18:52, 02 Jun 2016 Siranush Ghazanchyan The only German lawmaker who voted “no” to a resolution recognizing the World War I-era killings of Ottoman Armenians as “genocide” has said it is not the duty of the Bundestag to vote on historical events that took place in other countries, the Hurriyet […]
Notably Angela Merkel – who still prays that Erdogan will keep back the refugees from the EU – chose to stay absent from the vote Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 2 June 2016 29 comments Genocide commemorations in Yerevan, Armenia in 2012 Getty The Turks always shout and threaten when someone […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent The Church of England is facing a growing crisis of ageing clergy, with a quarter of its ministers aged over 60. Although the […]
Source: BBC The German parliament has approved a resolution declaring that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War One was a “genocide”. Armenians say up to […]
By Jacques Dupré, IRI | 1 June 2016 Halal is growing category in France Ramadan begins next week, a month when Muslims fast from dawn until sunset but outside those hours prepare meals with plenty of food. However, in many markets, the halal sector is in growth year-round. Jacques Dupré, […]
Source: The Guardian By Jennifer Rankin in Brussels Companies should be free to ban Muslim women from wearing headscarves at work if they have a general policy barring all religious and […]
Source: RNS By Francesco Canepa/Reuters BERLIN (Reuters) The head of the Protestant Church in Germany has called for Islam to be taught in state schools across the country as a […]
Source: Niume The French Minister of Ecology and Energy, Ségolène Royal, has announced that the country plans to cover 1,000 kilometres (621 miles) of roads with solar panels, according to the Global Construction Review. A single kilometre segment of the surface, called Wattway, can generate enough power for a town of […]
DOMINIQUE MOISI The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Jun. 01, 2016 Dominique Moisi is a professor at L’Institut d’études politiques de Paris and visiting professor at King’s College, London. ————————————– “I feel so proud of my city,” my interlocutor said, referring to the election of Sadiq Khan as London’s first […]
Source: TOI At a length of 57 kilometres (34.5 miles) the GBT will overtake Japan’s 53.9-kilometre Seikan tunnel as the longest rail tunnel in the world. The 50.5-kilometre Channel Tunnel that links England and France will be bumped into third place. More:
Source: BBC Police in Greece and the Czech Republic have arrested more than 20 people suspected of forging travel documents for migrants trying to enter Europe. European police agency Europol […]
Source: New China ROME, May 30 (Xinhua) — Around 13,000 migrants have been rescued and more than 700 are feared to have died at sea in the southern Mediterranean over […]
Photo: BMI, Gregor Wenda Neo-Nazi arrested after asylum-seeker threats The Local/AFP · 29 May 2016, 20:46 Published: 29 May 2016 20:46 GMT+02:00 Austrian police commandos have arrested a suspected neo-Nazi who allegedly threatened to massacre asylum-seekers, recovering several weapons and ammunition at his home, police said Sunday. The 20-year-old “repeatedly […]