By swissinfo.ch MAY 21, 2017 – 15:21 English first? That’s what some Swiss cantons want in primary schools (Keystone) Two foreign languages will continue to be taught in canton Zurich primary schools. On Sunday, around 60% of voters in the canton rejected the initiative “more quality – one foreign language […]
MAY 19, 2017 – Swiss assistance focused on livelihood generation schemes like helping women produce handicrafts (Swiss Cooperation Pakistan) Budget cuts have forced the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to withdraw aid to Pakistan. On Friday, SDC announced that it was ending development cooperation in two northern […]
MAY 19, 2017 – Tougher naturalisation requirements at the federal level from 2018 onwards will make it more difficult to pocket a Swiss passport(Keystone) The Swiss Federal Supreme Court […]
By swissinfo.ch, Keyston MAY 16, 2017 – 11:26 Thousands of curious visitors made the trip to a new mosque in Wil in northeast Switzerland, which was inaugurated last weekend. The […]
MAY 16, 2017 – About 14,000 of Switzerland’s 325,000 Muslim inhabitants are of Bosnian nationality.(Keystone) Swiss and Bosnian religious leaders have signed a joint declaration aimed at affirming the […]
MAY 13, 2017 – With no minaret, Switzerland’s newest mosque tries to fit into the local community(Keystone) A new prototype for mosques in Switzerland – one meant to blend in […]
TAMA’S TALES: So what if I wear a headscarf? http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:43171318&locale=en EMBED CODE MAY 11, 2017 – Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland – to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. Some of her friends are Muslim and wear head scarves. Tama finds out how this has affected their lives. (SRF Kulturplatz/swissinfo.ch) http://www.swissinfo.ch
AFP news@thelocal.it 7 May 2017 swiss guardsvatican Share this article Swiss Guards at the swearing-in ceremony on May 6th. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Forty new Swiss Guards were sworn in at […]
//tp.srgssr.ch/p/swi/embed?urn=urn:swi:video:43164502 https://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:43164502&locale=en EMBED CODE MAY 8, 2017 – 11:18 By a traditional show of hands at an outdoor assembly, voters in Glarus on Sunday voted against a proposal to ban the burka in public places in the mountain canton. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) The plan was backed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, […]
MAY 7, 2017 – bu Ticio remains the only Swiss canton to ban burkas(Keystone) Citizens in canton Glarus have rejected a proposal to outlaw the wearing of a burka in public. Participants […]
MAY 5, 2017 The Koran distribution campaign “Lies!” (Read!) originated in Germany.(Keystone) Zurich cantonal authorities say they have concrete indications that actions by the Salafist group ‘True Religion’ are aimed […]
By Veronica DeVore MAY 3, 2017 The University of Zurich, Switzerland’s largest university, recently launched its first “discovery semester” for refugees(Keystone) Students at Swiss universities have banded together to […]
By swissinfo.ch FEB 15, 2016 (Keystone) Anyone can apply for asylum – protection from persecution – in Switzerland, but applicants must prove or at least credibly demonstrate their refugee […]
MAY 2, 2017 – The intelligence service, headquartered in Bern, released the new category and figures as part of its annual report. (Keystone) Switzerland’s intelligence service has created a new category for identifying and describing the estimated 90 individuals who could have connections to terrorist activity. The new “at risk” […]
MAY 1, 2017 – How many people live in Switzerland and which languages do they speak? How high is the poverty line? Here you’ll find hard facts about the country at a glance. With a populationexternal link of 8,417,700 permanent residents at the end of 2016, Switzerland is the world’s 97th largest […]
By Regula Bochsler APR 30, 2017 – Heinrich Bullinger had to play a long game when wooing Anna Adlischwyler(zvg) The letter which was delivered to the Oetenbach convent on September […]
APR 27, 2017 – (Stadt Zürich) The city of Zurich has installed five special reading benches in its Sihlfeld cemetery, each equipped with a metal box full of books for people to dip into. “Cemeteries are not just places for mourning and for saying goodbye to loved ones,” the […]
By Abdelhafidh Abdeleli APR 26, 2017 Judaism is a non-Christian religion which has long been recognised officially in Switzerland. (Keystone) A multicultural society is often a multi-religious one. How can Switzerland best manage its growing diversity and the frictions which can arise? We speak with a legal specialist about […]
By Regula Bochsler APR 23, 2017 Pope Gregory XIII announced a major calendar reform on February 24, 1582(Andreas Praefcke/wikimedia commons) Catholics and Protestants in Switzerland fought, literally, for more […]
By Julie Hunt APR 25, 2017 Abdurahman Mohamad Mah arrived in Switzerland as a refugee at the age of six. Now he is a neurobiologist. This is his story. […]