During a conversation with German President Horst Kohler on September 9, Pope Benedict XVI said that he hoped Muslims could be better integrated into German society. That was the report that Koehler gave to reporters after their meeting.
Reactions against the conscience test applied to Muslims who want to become German citizens in Germany’s Baden-Wurttemberg province continue. The German Alliance 90/Greens Party Federal Assembly Group submitted a parliamentary motion to terminate the practice of examining the private life of applicants. The party’s Co-Chair Claudia Roth, criticizing the test’s questions on homosexuality as well,…
