Source: BBC Germany can cope with at least 500,000 asylum-seekers a year for several years, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has said. Officials have said they expect more than 800,000 asylum-seekers […]
Source: BBC Germany’s coalition government has agreed to spend 6bn euros (£4.4bn) to support record numbers of migrants and other measures to deal with the influx. Critics at home have […]
Photo: Norddeutsche Rundfunk/Screenshot Palestinian TV teen given German residency Published: 05 Sep 2015 11:29 GMT+02:00 A Palestinian teen threatened with deportation who burst into tears during a televised debate with German Chancellor Angela Merkel has got a residency permit for “humanitarian reasons,” a statement said Friday. In the encounter last […]
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. (Matthew 5:7) Merkel the bold Source: Economist ANGELA MERKEL may be the most powerful politician in Europe, but she […]
Germany captain Bastian Schweinsteiger at a press conference earlier this week. Photo: DPA Mannschaft step forward to welcome refugees Published: 02 Sep 2015 16:50 GMT+02:00 Germany’s World Cup-winning footballers have condemned xenophobic attacks on the thousands of foreigners pouring into their country and led calls to help the refugees amidst […]
Officers in Munich said they were ‘overwhelmed’ by the outpouring of help and support and had more than they needed LIZZIE DEARDEN Tuesday 01 September 2015 The Independent Police in a German city have been forced to ask the public to stop bringing donations for arriving refugees after […]
Hermann Bredehorst/ DER SPIEGEL Germany is experiencing an unprecedented influx of immigrants who will fundamentally change the country. They represent a burden, but also a chance to create a New […]
By Markus Dettmer, Carolin Katschak and Georg Ruppert spiegel.de Jörg Glaescher/DER SPIEGEL The German business community views the recent influx of refugees as an opportunity to help companies […]
Dresden riots: Protesters in Germany attack refugee buses shouting ‘foreigners out’ At least 31 officers were hurt in violent scuffles SHEHAB KHAN Saturday 22 August 2015 Up to 1,000 protesters have clashed with police in eastern Germany in riots reportedly sparked by the arrival of 250 migrants. Police said protesters […]
By Reuters – Aug 23,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A migrant tries to pass a fence near the town of Idomeni, on the border between former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Greece, on Saturday (AFP photo) BERLIN — Germany’s interior minister led calls on Sunday for a crackdown on right-wing militants and […]
In a SPIEGEL interview, Nobel Prize for medicine recipients Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and May-Britt Moser discuss the challenges women face in the male-dominated world of science and how they broke through the glass ceiling. It’s a Wednesday afternoon mid-summer in Trondheim, Norway. May-Britt Moser, 52, and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, 72, have spent […]
By REUTERS PUBLISHED: , 20 August 2015 BERLIN, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Some 11 refugees and six police officers were hurt on Wednesday night during a fight among asylum seekers at a shelter in the town of Suhl in the eastern state of Thuringia, police said. A group of about […]
A television presenter in Germany has triggered a huge online debate after calling for a public stand against the growth of racist attacks on refugees. Anja Reschke used a commentary slot on Tagesthemen, the nationwide news bulletin of German public broadcaster ARD,to lambast hate-filled commentators whose language she said had […]
A Pegida demonstration in Dresden in May. Photo: DPA Refugees live in fear of German far-right Published: 30 Jul 2015 08:11 GMT+02:00 It’s an astonishing statement for a refugee from war-torn Syria, but Taher has had enough of the xenophobia he has experienced in Germany. “I want to return to […]
Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association – AMYA 24 British Ahmadi Muslims hikers show their loyalty to Britain by climbing Germany’s highest mountain Zugspitze to raise money for The Royal British Legion […]
Source: NY Times By JESSE COBURN; JULY 23, 2015 HAMBURG, Germany — There were cracks in the steeple, and the southeastern wall would somehow have to accommodate a niche pointing toward […]
Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg — A Muslim-Jewish organization in Germany held an interfaith rally last week to promote equal employment opportunities for people who wear religious head coverings. Their message? “My head, my choice.” Salaam-Shalom organized the July 14 demonstration in response to news that Betul Ulusoy, a Muslim law school […]
First they took his empire, then they took his Bonaparte. Two centuries after Waterloo, a small piece of Napoleon reportedly survives in a urologist’s house. thestar.com insight – June 20, 2015 thestShare on Facebook Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. He died six years […]
Source: alislam.org Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says mankind must work towards peace to safeguard future generations The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is pleased to announce that on 9 June 2015, the World […]
A mosque in the Mecca for Catholics The mosque is tucked away in an industrial area . But otherwise, the members of the Ahmadiyyacommunity in Vechta are satisfied with their new house of worship . The new home of the Muslims is a handsome brick building with two nine-foot ornamental […]