Europe refugee centres and child brides
This week in Afghanistan a cleric in his 60s was arrested after marrying a six-year-old girl. Mohammad Karim claimed he married the child as a ‘religious offering,’ and her parents agreed. Elsewhere, in European asylum camps…
Germany: Weapons stolen from US military base
Special agents from the US Army Criminal Investigation Command are investigating the theft of guns and other military equipment from an arms room in a Stuttgart base. The Army declined to say what kind of or…
Ireland: Christians, Muslims and atheists unite for alternative religious education
In an unexpected coalition, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland (EAI) has joined with Atheist Ireland and Irish Ahmadiyya Muslims to work for alternatives to religious education in schools. They are hoping to do away with state-sponsored…
Germany: Pegida
Germany's anti-Islamic, anti-immigrant Pegida movement wants to found a political party. The new group would be called the Popular Party for Freedom and Direct Democracy (FDDV), according to its head Lutz Bachmann. Bachmann was fined recently…
