Mosque and church attendance in the Netherlands has dropped over the past ten years, according to a publication from the Central Statistics Bureau (CBS) outlining religion at the beginning of the 21st century. Last year 29% of the Netherlands’ 825,000 Muslims attended mosque at least once a month, a decline from 35% in 2004-2008 and…
Cologne’s city council has approved building plans for what is slated to be Germany’s largest mosque. Politicians hope the structure’s glass design and bilingual program will help integrate the Islamic community. Cologne’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens, the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Left Party all voted for the construction of the mosque,…
Instigated by French police, police sweeps in three countries netted 10 suspects accused of financing terrorist movements liked with al-Qaida. Eight suspects were detained in France, one in Germany and one in the Netherlands, suspected of collecting funds for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a militant group said to have close ties with a Turkish…
Debate on which organisations represent German Muslims seen as key to integration dialogue. The German Islam Conference has achieved its first concrete result: Muslim religious education will be introduced as a subject in German schools from next year. The move was agreed upon by representatives of the state and its Muslim population – in spite…
The size of the new Mosque in Cologne will be build significantly smaler than planed. It should then hold up to 1200 worshippers. The project was reduced up to a quater, a speaker of the German Turkish-Islamic Union (Ditib) said in Cologne. Final numbers have not been reported yet.
