The Official Bulletin of the Autonomous Region of Murcia (p. 12542) publishes that Lorca’s Town Council has ceded a plot of land to the local Muslim community for building a new mosque. The mosque will be located at Tiata (an outlying district of the town). The Muslim community in Lorca has seen several of its…
written by Rita Gomes Faria Demographics [Return to top] The capital of Spain has a population of 3,287,630. The 17.4 percent (574,869) is of foreign origin. As there are no census or official records of the religious faith of the population living in Spain, one way to estimate the number of Muslim population is by…
Salt is a small town very near to Gerona (Catalonia). The percentage of immigrants has grown from a 6 percent to 49 percent in the past ten years. As a consequence of the recent economical crisis both unemployment and crime have risen in the town. Last week, a group of residents protested at the City…
