Italian Muslim organizations call for mosques across country to pray, raise funds for earthquake victims

The director of Rome’s Grand Mosque is urging mosques across Italy to hold their Friday prayers for the victims of the devastating earthquake in central Italy, which killed at least 278 people, injured several thousand, and left around 28,000 homeless. “I am asking the imams of all of Italy’s mosques to follow our example and…

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Young Syrian becomes new head of Milan mosque

30-year old Abdullah Kabakebji, a young Syrian-Italian Muslim who is the former founder and leader of Italy’s Association of Young Muslims, has been appointed the head of Milan’s mosque. Kabakebji was elected as the director of Milan’s House of Islamic Culture, also known by local Muslims as the via Padova mosque. The House of Islamic…

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    Muslim organization expresses sympathy for controversial ‘right to die’ woman

    Mohamed Nour Dachan, the president of Italy’s largest Muslim organization, the UCOII, sent condolences over the death of a comatose woman at the center of a controversial euthanasia debate in Italy. Eluana Englaro died after being in a vegetative state since being injured in a car crash in late 1992 – doctors in a nursing…

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    Minister of the Department for European Community Policies says government must expel immigrants who fail to integrate

    Italian Minister of the Department for European Community Policies Andrea Ronchi said that immigrants who did not want to integrate must be deported from Italy. “We must fight everything that is related to violence, because our will is to integrate, however, in order to integrate we must expel all those that do not want to…

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      Muslim group stages events to promote religious dialogue

      The UCOII, Italy’s largest Muslim group, is organizing a series of meetings in several cities in Italy in order to promote inter-religious dialogue. Meetings are planned to take place in the eastern city of Ancona, Milan, Florence, and Venice. The series is called Coexistence: A Comparison of Accounts. The Muslim faithful, believe, together with their…

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