Europe

The Swedish magazine Skogseko’s front cover of its new number sparked widespread criticism on social networking sites within Sweden. The magazine put on its cover the image of the researcher, “Mastarin Ara”, a veiled Muslim woman from Bangladesh, who was…

Pope Francis urged the world on Sunday to learn from history at a time when the danger of nuclear war over the conflict in Ukraine is emerging, and called for choosing the path of peace. “We cannot forget the danger…

Pope Francis on Sunday October 9th made an impassioned defense of migrants, calling their exclusion “scandalous, disgusting and sinful,” putting him on a collision course with Italy’s upcoming right-wing government. “The exclusion of migrants is scandalous. Indeed, the exclusion of…

The new report on immigration prepared by ‘Caritas’ Organization  and ‘Migrantes’ Foundation of the Italian Episcopal Conference, and presented in Rome on Friday October 7th, said that “taking into account the religious affiliation of the minors, it is estimated that…

Unidentified persons wrote anti-Muslim phrases and insults on the wall of a mosque belonging to the Turkish Islamic Union for Religious Affairs in Offenbach, Hessen state, central Germany, according to media outlets.  A statement issued by the city’s police, on…

Muslims living in European countries have long been aware of the Islamophobic attitudes that are espoused by not only majority ethnic groups, but also by their respective governments. Indeed, in countries such as the UK, anti-Muslim workplace behaviors have been…

An Islamic cemetery from the Islamic era has been discovered in Granada, Spain. At least 600 tombs from three different eras (from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries) were discovered during work to develop a car parking lot in the…

French far-right politician Marine Le Pen has called on Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin to close more mosques in the country, saying that closing 24 mosques over the past two years is not enough. Le Pen said, in an interview on…

Muslims in Germany’s city of Cologne welcomed the permission granted to them for two years to announce the call to prayer every Friday on loudspeaker. Abdurrahman Atasoy, the acting president of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), said: “I…

The French government has closed dozens of mosques in the past two years or so under the pretext of a controversial and much-criticized anti-separatism law. France has started the process of shutting down the Obernai mosque in the Bas-Rhin area.…