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Rochdale loyalties tested by Galloway’s Labour challenge on Gaza policy Flamboyant MP tells the National his by-election victory was a signal that British Muslims could provide a significant general election upset

June 9, 2024 Thomas Harding

(National-UAE) Rochdale, says its current MP George Galloway, will be remembered as the place where Britain’s Muslims saw that there was a new way of finding a political voice. His view, although bound with self-interest, was certainly borne out during the National’s […]

Cyprus president says a buffer zone splitting the island won’t become another migrant route

June 4, 2024 Menelaos Hadjicostis

(AP) The president of Cyprus said Tuesday that he won’t “open another route” for irregular migration by letting through more than two dozen asylum-seekers now stranded in a U.N.-controlled buffer zone that bisects the war-divided island nation. President Nikos Christodoulides told reporters […]

Pope Francis insists Europe doesn’t have a migrant emergency and challenges countries to open ports

September 23, 2023 Nicole Winfield, Sylvie Corbet and Trisha Thomas

(AP) Pope Francis challenged French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders to open their ports to people fleeing hardship and poverty, insisting Saturday that the continent isn’t facing a migration “emergency” but rather a long-term reality that governments must deal with […]

Pope goes to Marseille to talk migration, but will Europe listen as it scrambles to stem an influx?

September 20, 2023 Nicole Winfield, Trisha Thomas and Sylvie Corbet

(AP) Ten years after Pope Francis made a landmark visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa to show solidarity with migrants, he is joining Catholic bishops from the Mediterranean this weekend in France to make the call more united. The question is […]

Italy’s Meloni seeks broad cooperation to stanch flows of migrants to Europe with aid to Africa

July 23, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Sunday called for new, more equal relationships between Europe and migrants’ countries of origin and transit as she convened a summit of some 20 nations, EU officials and international organizations aimed at stanching flows of illegal […]

Sweden is considering law change to stop public Koran burnings — Aftonbladet

July 6, 2023 Johan Ahlander

(Reuters) The Swedish government is examining whether it could change the law to stop people setting the Koran on fire in public, as recent burnings of the Muslim holy book have damaged Sweden’s security, Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer told Aftonbladet paper on […]

Quran burnings have Sweden torn between free speech and respecting minorities

July 5, 2023 Karl Ritter and Jan M. Olsen

(AP) A Quran burning and a string of requests to approve protests involving the destruction of more holy books have left Sweden torn between its commitment to free speech and its respect for religious minorities. The clash of fundamental principles has complicated […]

Turkey says Quran burning in Sweden raises questions about its reliability as a possible NATO member

July 4, 2023 Suzan Fraser

(AP) Turkey’s foreign minister said Tuesday that Swedish authorities’ failure to prevent Quran-burning protests in their country is raising security concerns and questions about Sweden’s credentials for possible NATO membership. But Hakan Fidan said Turkey would still approve Sweden’s membership in the […]

France urges stepped-up US cooperation on terror threats

May 20, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AFP) France’s interior minister warned of a coming resurgence in terrorist threats in Europe during a visit to the US on Friday, saying he had asked Washington for stepped-up cooperation ahead of the Paris Olympics in 2024. Pointing to the US withdrawal […]

Migrant boat breaks up off Italian coast, killing nearly 60

February 26, 2023 Frances D'Emilio

(AP) A wooden boat crowded with migrants smashed into rocky reefs and broke apart before dawn Sunday off the Italian coast, authorities said. Rescuers recovered nearly 60 bodies, and dozens more people were missing in the rough waters. Officials feared the death […]

Italy accused of illegally rejecting migrants as anger mounts

November 6, 2022 Ella Ide

(AFP) Humanitarian groups on Sunday said Italy had broken international law by refusing to let in migrants plucked from the sea as a German rescue charity said it would take legal action against Rome. As rescue ships in Catania waited for permission […]

Francis hits out at EU migration divisions at start of Greek visit

December 4, 2021 Clement Melki, Alexandros Kottis and John Hadoulis

(AFP) Pope Francis on Saturday blamed the EU’s nationalist divisions for a lack of coordination on migration as he began a landmark trip to Greece, aiming to improve complicated relations with the country’s Orthodox Church. Francis said that Europe was “torn by […]

UNHCR appeals to Italy not to impede [migrant] rescue boats

April 16, 2021 Colleen Barry

(AP) The head of the U.N. refugee agency on Friday said he has urged Italy not to unnecessarily impede NGOs that operate migrant rescue ships in the central Mediterranean, as warmer weather is expected to bring the usual seasonal uptick in the […]

Boat with 422 migrants, some with COVID-19, heads to Sicily

February 7, 2021 Frances D'Emilio

(AP) A rescue ship with 422 migrants aboard, a small number of whom tested positive for COVID-19, was headed to a port in Sicily on Sunday. SOS Mediterranee, the humanitarian group which operates the rescue ship Ocean Viking, told the Associated Press […]

Malta imam says religious vilification should be illegal, in France murder reaction Imam Mohammed El Sadi claimed the publication of Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad played into the hands of Muslim extremists and extreme right groups

October 27, 2020 Matthew Vella

(Malta Today) The imam of the Paola mosque, Mohammed El Sadi, has once again called for the criminalisation of blasphemy and the mocking of faiths, in a reaction to the fanatical murder of a French teacher who displayed the notorious Charlie Hebdo […]

French Muslims ‘horrified’ by Paty murder, says religious leader

October 22, 2020 Michael Fitzpatrick

(Radio France) France’s Muslim community is “horrified … profoundly shocked” by the killing of Samuel Paty, according to Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith. He said the teacher’s brutal murder was an insult to the memory of […]

Greece sees end to Lesbos migrant crisis within a week

September 13, 2020 Vassilis Kyriakoulis and Katerina Nikolopoulou

(AFP) Greece said Sunday it hoped thousands of asylum seekers left homeless by fires at Europe’s largest migrant camp could be rehoused within a week to end a crisis that has seen protesters clash with police. Asylum-seekers — including the elderly and […]

Tennessee newspaper investigating ‘horrific’ end of times ad

June 21, 2020 John Raby

(AP) A Tennessee newspaper said Sunday it is investigating what its editor called a “horrific” full-page advertisement from a religious group that predicts a terrorist attack in Nashville next month. The paid advertisement that appeared in Sunday’s editions of the Tennessean from […]

Minnesota priest apologizes for calling Muslims a ‘threat’

January 29, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AP) A Minnesota Roman Catholic priest apologized Wednesday for saying in a sermon that Islam was “the greatest threat in the world” to the United States and Christianity. The Rev. Nick VanDenBroeke apologized in a statement issued by the St. Paul-Minnesota Catholic […]

Italy lets in stranded migrants after striking EU deal

July 31, 2019 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Italy allowed 116 rescued migrants to disembark from a coastguard ship Wednesday with Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s backing after five EU countries and the Church agreed to share responsibility for looking after them. The far-right minister used Facebook to announce his […]

Many people in mostly Christian countries believe values clash with Islam — poll (LINK ONLY)

February 3, 2019 EoI News

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Pope Francis praises Sweden’s moratorium on immigration

January 29, 2019 Thomas D. Williams

(Breitbart) Countries that are unable to assimilate migrants should stop accepting more until they are able to integrate them, Pope Francis told reporters on the papal plane Monday. The pope put forward Sweden as an example of a country that had accepted […]

Strasbourg: Capital of the EU and ‘the future of Europe’

January 17, 2019 Giulio Meotti

(Gatestone) “New York, Geneva and Strasbourg are the only cities in the world which are home to international institutions without being national capitals,” an official page of the French city proudly proclaims. “The choice of Strasbourg as the European capital following the […]

Charlie Hebdo keeps the lights on

January 7, 2019 Michael Fitzpatrick

(Radio France) This is the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attack against the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Twelve people died at the hands of two radical Islamic attackers, who also killed Ahmed Merabet, a police officer who was on […]