Witnesses and immigrants say that a gang armed with sticks and baseball bats attacked three shops in Rome, run by Bangladeshi immigrants. Shop windows were smashed in the heavily populated immigrant neighborhood, but no one was injured in the attacks. One shopkeeper in the neighborhoods who witnessed the attacks said that the attackers wore ski…
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, convened the seventh Building Bridges Seminar in Rome this week. The interfaith dialogue event has brought together Muslim and Christian scholars since 2002, when hosted at Lambeth Palace by Dr George Carey, the then Archbishop of Canterbury. The seminar studied Biblical and Qur’anic texts, with a view to…
Oded Ben-Hur, the Israeli Ambassador to the Vatican called Muslim immigrants a serious threat to peace and democracy in Europe. “(Muslims) have a different agenda, and are beginning to be a real serious menace to democracy and peace in Europe,” said Ben-Hur during a speech at the American University of Rome. The ambassador also criticized…
Fewer than expected immigrants have made it onto the electoral lists for political parties in the Italian parliament and senate; there are a total of three foreign-born candidates for the parliament and senate. Among them include Souad Sbai, the head of Italy’s Association of Moroccan women, who has been recruited by former prime minister Berlusconi’s…
The dates of November 4-6 have been set for dialogue between Catholic leaders and two dozen Muslim scholars and leaders to meet in Rome; Pope Benedict XVI will meet with the Muslim delegates on the last day of the meetings. According to a Vatican news release, the theme of the seminar will be _Love of…
