While the debate about Muslim integration in Europe sometimes seems dominated by fears and division, Berlin-based writer Julia Hoffmann highlights one German effort to help promote diversity in the public sector “Islam is not a part of Germany” read a headline in the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung before the start of a high-profile conference on Islam sponsored…
April 22/14 In an interview with the internet portal Qantara.de, the President of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau Volker Jung spoke about German Muslims and the churches’ answers to the challenges of a changing society. He pointed out how Germany has become a migration society, where there are fully integrated immigrants, born…
12/04/2012 Educaislam, the training Centre of the Junta Islamica, has signed a cooperation agreement with the Muslim Network, Red Musulmanas this April. Both entities have signed a collaboration agreement for the purpose of deepening their relations initiatives and activities. As one of the main measures they will enhance all teaching innovation projects that respond to…
Homophobia is widespread in German schools, studies show. Religion and traditional values continue to play a role in young people’s views of gender preference, while dialogue may improve the situation. Sabine Ripperger reports
News Agencies – March 28, 2012 Nearly 60 percent of the French say they distrust youth from the ‘banlieues’, France’s impoverished, immigrant-dominated suburbs, according to a new survey that has laid bare the country’s divisions. “The results are extremely worrying,” Thibault Renaudin, national secretary of Afev, the organization that published the poll. The poll conducted…
