Oasis Center convenes a meeting about Christians and Muslims

June 9, 2013   Monday and Tuesday June 17 and 18 Oasis led by Cardinal Angelo Scola will be a meeting in Milan on the theme: “On the precipice: Christians and Muslims between Secularism and Ideology.” The meeting will take place on the University of Milan campus and is open to everyone. To attend email:…

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The Palasharp complex in Milan a mosque? Loans are also ready from Qatar and other Gulf countries, lending their hands to the Lombard capital, not only for economic reasons

By John Giacalone May 20, 2013 Prayer at Palasharp 250×149 complex might make it a mosque? Funding is ready from Qatar and others. Qatar Holding has officially announced the purchase of 40% of Porta Nuova, the real estate development plan of more than two billion euro currently under construction in the city’s center, the complex…

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Patriarch Bartholomew, more ‘freedom’ to Christians in Islamic countries

“The situation of Christians in some Muslim countries is in need of major improvements to allow more freedoms ‘and chances’ similar to those that Muslims enjoy in Christian countries” said Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who is now visiting Milan during the seventeenth anniversary of the Edict of Constantine. In the keynote address delivered with the…

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J’accuse the Islamic community

Milan- “It should have been a day of celebration but it has turned in yet another act of discrimination and racism against Muslims.” The ANSA news agency reported the accusations of Sharif Lorenzini, Bari, director of the Italian Islamic Community, with respect to a water park “Acquaneva of Inzago,” in the province of Milan. At…

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Maroni “Open” to a Mosque “but only if it respects Italian roots”

5/10/2013   The President of the Lombardy region, Roberto Maroni, is now “open” to the possibility of having a Mosque in Milan. One of the main critics of a construction of a mosque, Maroni now states that he is open to a Mosque, as long as a mosque “respects Italian culture, our traditions and history.”…

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