November 11, 2013 Alberto Fernandez, deputy of the Popular Party (PP) in Barcelona has asked the mayor Xavier Trias to close all Muslim centers that have no license. Fernandez has also denounced a Pakistani cultural center located in the Poble Sec (Barcelona) as an illegal center. Finally, he has asked the City Hall to…
June 7, 2013 A collaboration between Macrame, Zimbro and the association of Barcellonesi Muslims, Romanian Orthodox Parish-Messina and the Sunni Mosque in Barcelona, and the artistic contribution of the photographer George Special, have all supported the creation of a photographic exhibition, entitled “Glimpses of Interculturality”
26/11/2012 Hundreds of Shiite Muslims in Spain commemorated this weekend the day of Ashura, the anniversary of the martyrdom of the third Shiite Imam, Imam Hussein along with his 72 companions. In Spain’s capital, Madrid, the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran organized religious ceremonies from the first day of the month of Moharam…
19 October 2012 One detainee was stopped at the airport of El Prat de Llobregat (Barcelona) with about 100 passports while preparing to take a flight to Greece. On 13 October, the Guarda Civil via Operation “KOMETA” dismantled a criminal group that had provided false documents to an al Qaeda cell based in Germany, where it…
21 September 2012 Some 800 Muslims, mostly of Pakistani origin, protested in the streets of Barcelona for the film ‘Innocence of Muslims’, the two-hour American film that parodies the life of Muhammad. Under the slogan “We want more the prophet Muhammad than our lives, parents and children”, the march started at the Arc de…
