According to recent polls, around 70 percent of Germans consider themselves to be religious. However, the country’s two major denominations — Protestant and Catholic — are seeing a drop in attendance. Recent marketing slogans such as “You are the Church” are meant to attract new members into German houses of worship. But fewer and fewer…
Austrian politicians and media are raising significant concerns over a recent survey that said a fifth of all Islamic religious education teachers here hold anti-democratic views. In the survey of 210 teachers, conducted as part of a PhD thesis, 21.9 percent agreed with the following statement: “I oppose democracy because it is not compatible with…
A Dutch cartoonist who works under the pseudonym ‘Gregarius Nekschot’ was arrested for publishing insulting cartoons targeting Muslims and the Islamic religion. The cartoonist’s real name has not been released, fearing his safety may be jeopardized. Judicial authorities in Amsterdam said that the cartoonist was arrested as a suspect for publishing cartoons which are discrimination…
The Union of Muslim communities in Spain (UCIDE) claims that 1.13 million Spaniards (2.5% of the country’s residents) are Muslims, reports Vatican Radio. The largest group includes Moroccan immigrants, numbering approximately 565,000. There are also almost 35,000 native Spaniards who are converts to Islam. UCIDE is pushing for Islamic religion classes to be held in…
Islamic countries pushed through a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday urging a global prohibition on the public defamation of religion – a response largely to the furor last year over caricatures published in a Danish newspaper of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. The statement proposed by the Organization of Islamic Conference addressed…
