Registration is now available for the Bristol-UCL Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenship conference on Post-Immigration Minorities, Religion and National Identities, 14-15 November, 2008 in Bristol. A limited number of places are available for non-paper givers and those not connected to the Programme. The Leverhulme Programme team will address topics based on the following themes:…
Officials from the country’s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology said they were in talks with a number of universities in Britain, the United States and Germany. Reports from Tehran claim they will provide teaching materials and scholars after striking up deals with several unnamed institutions. Gholamreza Khajesarvi, a government official, told the Islamic Republic…
A think- tank has calculated that by 2035, there will be about 1.96 million active Muslims in Britain, compared with 1.63 million church-going Christians. Figures published in the latest of a series of reports entitled Religious Trends by Christian Research has warned that 4,000 churches could close by 2020 if congregations continue to shrink at…
Spanish bishops who refused to respond to a survey about Muslim immigration are drawing criticism for turning the backs on inter-religious relations. “We feel sad at this silence that we do not understand and which hurts us as Christians,” noted Emilio Galindo Aguilar, the head of the Centre for Hispano-Arabic and Islamic-Christian Research, which conducted…
Thomas Heggehammer of the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment says that fighting Islamophobia and racism bring about security problems – the more Norwegians hate Muslim, the more likely it will be to see Islamic violence in the country. The more aggression Muslims experience from Norwegians, the more tensions will rise and radicalization may increase. Heggehammer says…
