06 August 2012 Lleida’s mayor, Angel Ros, has said that Muslims in his city “are not doing enough” to integrate. Ros has advised the community to “normalize their ways and to have the will to do an integration process.” “The fact is that today in this country even a mosque generates rejection” and to this…
08 June 2012 The contentious administrative Court of Lleida declared as final the decision taken by the City Hall of Lleida in the summer of 2010 to temporarily close the Mosque In Hazm, for exceeding the permitted capacity and endanger the safety of the faithful followers. The police agents had estimated that the number of…
18 May 2012 The Bishop of Solsona wants to convert Muslims living in the territory of his diocese to Christianity. Novell Xavier, the youngest bishop in Spain, writes in his Novell weekly on Sunday: “In our work of evangelization we must not rule out the proclamation of our faith to the Muslims who reside in…
July 18, 2011 Lleida’s North Street mosque continues to be closed one year after the local government, finding the place of worship did not fulfil the safety requirements, decided to shut it down on July 2010. The relationship between the imam of the Salafi Islamic community and the city council has deteriorated because of the…
Lleida was the first Spanish town to propose a ban of the burqa, and now the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia has supported the veto. The Superior Court argues that the integral veil can “disturb the peace” of other citizens because it allows people to “hide their face” and this does not match the…
