In a national referendum the Swiss people voted to ban the construction of minarets on mosques. Not mosques, but minarets.
In the News
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December 1st, 2009
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December 1st, 2009
A controversial proposal to build a mosque in London Colney has been turned down on the grounds that it was likely to attract greater numbers than at first indicated.
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December 1st, 2009
The British Government has vowed to closely monitor construction plans for a 5,000-place Muslim girls' boarding school.
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December 1st, 2009
A new study points to promising use of adult stem cells, which can be injected into the arm or leg and heal hearts.
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December 1st, 2009
An FDA-approved clinical trial is the first to show that treating patients with adult stem cells after a heart attack is safe and that it appears to repair damaged heart tissue. Results of the study are published in the December 8 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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December 1st, 2009
It is not in the interests of children to suggest that the nuclear family is dead, argues Jill Kirby.
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December 1st, 2009
Katherine Rake, who yesterday said the days of the 'typical family' are numbered, is a hard-line feminist brought in last summer to head the Family and Parenting Institute, the state-funded mouthpiece on family life.
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December 1st, 2009
How depressing and predictable it was to read that Dr Katherine Rake, the new chief executive of the Family And Parenting Institute, is warning against the 'trap' of attempting to preserve traditional family structures through Government initiatives.
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December 1st, 2009
A Christian organization is in talks with the Manitoba government to create the country's first 'faith-based' prison unit for inmates to explore their spiritual side, Canwest News Service has learned.
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December 1st, 2009
Italy could become the next European country to hold a referendum on the building of Islamic minarets.