Showdown in Munich
Feb 24,2019 -JORDAN TIMES – CARL BILDT MUNICH — It was at the 2007 Munich Security Conference that Russian President Vladimir Putin first signalled a cooling of Russian-Western relations. Soon […]
Illegal immigration, refugees top Arab-EU Summit agenda
MOHAMED AL-SHAMAA February 24, 2019 Heads of state, officials from EU and Arab League member countries to attend summit today Some 19.5 million people globally have been forced to flee […]
Germany continues payments to churches a century after deciding to stop
Source: Religion News Service BY Tom Heneghan PARIS (RNS) — It’s been 100 years since Germany’s first democratic government decided to stop making generous payments to its Protestant and Roman […]
Once a majority, Protestants now account for fewer than a third of Germans
Source: Pew Research Center BY JONATHAN EVANS German churchgoers attend a service marking the anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Germany is the birthplace of Martin […]
Anti-Semitism: Germany sees ‘10% jump in offences’ in 2018
Source: BBC News The German government has revealed a sharp increase in the number of anti-Semitic offences recorded last year. Crime data, detailed in German media on Wednesday, says 1,646 […]
Sacked cardinal issues manifesto in thinly veiled attack on pope
Feb 9, 2019 By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A cardinal who was sacked from a senior Vatican post by Pope Francis has written his own “Manifesto […]
“Dream and Trauma: Reopening of the Carpet Rooms in the Museum of Islamic Art” at Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
BY BLOUIN ARTINFO | February 05, 2019 “Caucasian dragon carpet from the 16th century” (© National Museums in Berlin, Museum of Islamic Art / Teßmer) Pergamonmuseum reopens its […]
Migration pushes German population to record high of 83 million
Source: Swiss info Jan 25, 2019 BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s population last year reached a record high of 83 million people due to positive net migration that easily offset a […]
Far-right lawmakers walk out of Holocaust tribute in Bavaria
Source: Associated Press By DAVID RISING BERLIN (AP) — More than a dozen state lawmakers from a German far-right party walked out of the Bavarian parliament during a tribute to […]
Enshrined Impotence. Germany Joins a Dysfunctional Security Council
Germany is once again part of the UN Security Council for a two-year stint. But the council’s inability to put a stop to the violence in Syria and Yemen in […]
German hacker spread right-wing, anti-Muslim views on Internet
This content was published on January 11, 2019 BERLIN (Reuters) – A 20-year-old student who disclosed the private data of nearly 1,000 politicians and others in one of Germany’s biggest […]
Probe over Frankfurt police neo-Nazi network widens
DAILY SABAH WITH WIRES Istanbul Amid an ongoing probe over a neo-Nazi network within the Frankfurt police force, a German police officer in Hesse was identified as a suspect for […]
Turkish Islamic union in Germany calls for reducing tensions, returning objectivity
Source: DAILY SABAH; ISTANBUL Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) in Germany called for reducing tensions and returning to “objective issues,” referring to a debate in recent years in which […]
Homosexuality at fault for sex abuse not Catholic Church, says German cardinal
Source: DPA/The Local; news@thelocal.de; @thelocalgermany 4 January 2019 One of the most senior German figures in the Catholic Church has controversially denied that sexual abuse was a problem in the […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth cleaning many German cities after the New Year Eve celebrations
German Newspapers in many cities are full of reports of how the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth had cleaned their cities after the New Year’s Eve festivals. Here are just some of […]
Goethe’s tribute to Islam
Akbar Ahmed May 12, 2017 Neither immigration officials, nor border guards, nor racial or religious barriers can keep away the sense of affectionate spiritual ownership Allama Iqbal feels for […]
Goethe and Islam – Religion has no nationality
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe may have had his reservations about Islam – as he did about Christianity – and he certainly wasn′t shy of criticising it, but his credo was […]
Can Muslims Integrate Into Western Societies?
Source: The Review of Religions – March 2013 Address by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmadaba, Khalifatul Masih V, Head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, at the Bait-ur-Rasheed Mosque in Hamburg, […]
Far-right ‘neighbourhood defence groups’ patrol Bavarian town after asylum seeker attack
Source: The Local After four young asylum seekers reportedly attacked pedestrians at random in Amberg in northern Bavaria, far-right “neighbourhood defence groups” have started patrolling the streets of the town, according to German media reports. On Saturday evening the four suspects allegedly physically assaulted 12 random people while under the […]
Many foreigners in Germany was ‘a problem he wanted to solve’.
Source: The Local A man who injured five people in an apparent xenophobic attack on New Year’s Eve was mentally ill. He told police that the many foreigners in Germany was ‘a problem he wanted to solve’. DPA reported early on Wednesday that the man had previously been admitted to […]