The chief military chaplain, Abdelkader Arbi, has revealed in December the project outlines of the first professional training for French Muslim military chaplains, which should be open in September 2020. For three years, aspirants (bachelor’s degree holder at least) would receive an intensive formation of 25 hours training per week, mainly based on a practical…
Just like the population at large, the German Bundeswehr has undergone a remarkable trajectory of religious pluralisation in recent years. As of 2012, over 48,000 Catholics and over 63,000 Protestants served in the armed forces. This would mean that just over half of Germany’s 180,000 soldiers identified as Christian; a figure that maps quite closely onto…
An internal government document that has been circulating the White House, has revealed plans of the U.S. government to expand the so called “Muslim” Travel Ban, by including additional countries. The current ban as it stands includes restrictions on travel from five Muslim majority countries: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Venezuela and North Korea…
The U.S Air Force has made history by commissioning its first Muslim woman chaplain candidate last month. Second lieutenant Saleha Jabeen received her Ecclesiastical Endorsement from the Islamic Society of North America and commissioned into the Air Force as a chaplain candidate, which, after she finishes training, will allow her to get a duty station…
Sebastian Kurz, Austrian Chancellor and leader of the conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) has pulled off a remarkable political feat: having governed in a coalition with the far-right nationalists of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) since 2017, he has not only emerged unscathed from the rubble of his ÖVP-FPÖ government, which collapsed amidst a corruption scandal….
