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  • Vashadze to Visit Vatican, Switzerland 9 Dec 2009 11:11 GMT
    ... During the visit to Vatican Vashadze will meet with Grand Chancellor of ... Secretary for Relations with States of the Holy See Monsignor Dominique Mamberti and other officials. In ... Micheline Calmy-Rey and Economy Minister Doris Leuthard. Switzerland represents Russia's diplomatic interests in Georgia and ...

  • Swiss Anti-Islam Vote Draws Protests from Jews and Christians 9 Dec 2009 18:31 GMT
    ... Swiss Anti-Islam Vote Draws Protests from Jews and ... foul. Jewish organizations have joined Muslims, the Vatican and other groups in warning that a Swiss ... Jewish Committee. Both the Swiss government and Switzerland's Jewish community had strongly opposed the initiative. ...

  • Islam, Switzerland and suspicion (Dec 3rd) 10 Dec 2009 18:51 GMT
    ... the dismay of onlookers ranging from the Vatican to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (which ... groups 57 Muslim countries), the citizens of Switzerland voted by a comfortable margin (57%, with ... the result will strain relations between the Swiss and the Turks. Atilla Toptas, a Turkish-born ...

  • Swiss minaret ban reignites debate on Islamophobia in Europe 9 Dec 2009 10:59 GMT
    ... building new minarets on mosques approved by Swiss voters on 29 November is causing great ... that there are only four minarets in Switzerland, so why is it that it is ... is not an EU member state. The Vatican denounced the vote as a blow to religious ...

  • Swiss anti-Islam vote draws protests from Jews, others 10 Dec 2009 21:30 GMT
    ... mosques. Jewish organizations have joined Muslims, the Vatican and other groups in warning that the Swiss referendum, approved Nov. 29, could fuel hatred, ... and openness.” About 400,000 Muslims live in Switzerland in a population of 7.5 million. Four ...

  • MUSLIM WORLD: Swiss businessman defiantly builds minaret to protest ban 11 Dec 2009 16:33 GMT
    ... act of terrorism.  But that didn't stop Swiss businessman Guillaume Morand, who protested last month's ... the more scandalous, Morand said, given that Switzerland encourages Arabs to "visit the country and ... Morand joins prominent Jewish leaders and the Vatican in condemning the referendum last month, when 53% ...

  • A lesson to draw from the Swiss ban on minarets 15 Dec 2009 02:44 GMT
    ... A lesson to draw from the Swiss ban on minarets , Bandung | Tue, ... | Tue, 12/15/2009 9:04 AM | Opinion Switzerland is a tiny state, with a population ... the Pontifical Council For Inter-religious Dialogue at Vatican, who recently visited Indonesia. To my mind, ...

  • OIC urges Swiss govt to annul minaret vote 10 Dec 2009 21:19 GMT
    ... OIC urges Swiss govt to annul minaret vote The Organisation ... Muslim states, fellow European countries and the Vatican. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi ... divisive and a thoroughly unfortunate step for Switzerland to take”. “I have no hesitation at ...

  • Switzerland urged to annul minaret vote 10 Dec 2009 21:05 GMT
    ... The Organisation of Islamic Conference has urged Swiss authorities to annul a vote banning the ... ban was opposed by the bulk of Switzerland's political parties as well as the economic ... Muslim states, fellow European countries and the Vatican. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi ...

  • Religious sect sues Chinese official in Taiwan court 15 Dec 2009 13:10 GMT
    ... Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI has delivered ... a significant step in relations between the Holy See and the communist southeast Asian country. The ... ... Doha - The verbal war over Switzerland's ban on building new minarets on mosques ...

  • Basque priests reject bishop appointed by pope 16 Dec 2009 15:11 GMT
    ... against Xu Chunguang, former Communist Party secretary-genera... Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI has delivered ... a significant step in relations between the Holy See and the communist southeast Asian country. The ... ... Doha - The verbal war over Switzerland's ban on building new minarets on mosques ...

  • Papal nuncio to keep ceremonial role 16 Dec 2009 04:39 GMT
    ... necessity of a substantive response from the Vatican to fundamental questions asked by the Murphy ... of EU states” as well as “by Switzerland and many other countries around the world”. ... He also explained the need “for the Holy See to provide the fullest possible co-operation with ...

  • Jews and Christians Protest Anti-Islam Vote 10 Dec 2009 21:16 GMT
    ... Swiss voters may have been taking aim at ... foul. Jewish organizations have joined Muslims, the Vatican and other groups in warning that a Swiss ... Jewish Committee. Both the Swiss government and Switzerland's Jewish community had strongly opposed the initiative. ...

  • Crucifixes and Minarets: Europe at a Crossroads 16 Dec 2009 18:50 GMT
    ... booths across their nation, 57.7 percent of Swiss voters found themselves in agreement with Fallaci, ... history and heritage of the Italian people. Vatican spokesperson Father Federico Lombardi agreed, adding that "religion ... widely recognized in international treaties ratified by Switzerland. To limit the exercise of a fundamental ...

  • How Much Allah Can the Old Continent Bear? 11 Dec 2009 18:45 GMT
    ... Switzerland's recent vote to ban the construction of ... with Islam's increased visibility. In the small Swiss town of Langenthal, the battle over the ... Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the United Nations and the Vatican were all equally up in arms They said ...


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