21 June 2012 Starting on Monday, the 25th of June, Barcelona hosts the II Iberian-American Interreligious Summit. Among others, the program will address issues such as freedom and human rights, brotherhood and solidarity, dialogue and coexistence, inclusion and equity. The findings aim to provide the XXII Iberian-American Summit with proposals to achieve stable and equitable…
03 June12 Barcelona will be the stage, next month of June, of the II Interreligious Ibero-American Meeting, a summit that will focus on the interreligious dialogue. The Organization President is the Muslim, Mohamed Halhoul, also Secretary and Speaker of the Islamic Council of Catalonia. In representation of the Islamic communities of Portugal and Spain, the…
29 May 2012 Although with different arguments and suggestions, the Partido Popular and the Platform for Catalonia (PXC) have filed two resolutions that put the spotlight on Muslim places of worship claiming that, they have to pay property taxes for their places of praying. The three councilors of the PXC want the city Authority of…
The Union of Islamic Cultural Centers of Catalonia (UCCIC)-currently coordinates some 70 mosques and oratories of Catalonia, and the NousCatalans Foundation/CDC have agreed, “to facilitate the granting of licenses to build a large mosque in Barcelona to fight and isolate the fundamentalist movement that spread in small oratories.” The agreements also provides for” improving the…
Barrio de San Roc, Badalona, Friday day of prayer for Muslims. The Pakistani community prepares the local sports hall to make it their place of worship while the patriarchs of the Gypsy clans that have already settled in the neighborhood for decades monitored to prevent incidents. Muslims living in the neighborhood have a small chapel…
