Debate on religious symbols intensifies
The public debate about whether crucifixes and religious icons should be displayed in Greece’s classrooms is set to intensify after it was revealed yesterday that the country’s Ombudsman received several complaints about infringement of religious freedoms. Four sets of parents have asked for religious symbols to be removed from their children’s classrooms and one pupil has filed a complaint about her school making her attend religious education classes.
(9.1.2010) Kathimerini English Edition
Muslim groups call for calm
Tensions simmered yesterday in parts of central Athens with large immigrant populations, following a weekend of protests by Muslims at a police officer’s alleged defacement of a Quran and an attack by suspected far-rightists on a makeshift mosque.
(26.5.2009) Kathimerini English Edition
Tension in Athens stoked up
Five people were injured in an arson attack on a makeshift mosque early on Saturday, in an incident that seemed to be a result of the clashes in central Athens on Friday that followed the alleged desecration of a copy of the Quran by a police officer.
(25.5.2009) Kathimerini English Edition
Without a prayer?
An underground mosque with hundreds of worshippers in the western Athens suburb of Nea Ionia has encountered vehement opposition from residents and now risks being shuttered by city officials. Manolis Triantafylos and his wife Anastasia own the basement which their tenants have turned into an unlicensed place of worship. The elderly couple say they are being unfairly punished by local authorities after they were fined 90,000 euros for renting their residential property to be used as a mosque.
(27.2.2009) ATHENS NEWS ( by Kathy Tzilivakis )
Agenda : FRIDAY
The Educational Program for the Muslim Minority hosts a conference on “Cultural Diversity and Human Rights,” starting at 6 p.m. at the University of Athens, 30 Panepistimiou St. To Saturday. For details, log on to www.museduc.gr.
(22.5.2008) Kathimerini English Edition
This Week : Friday
The Educational Program for the Muslim Minority hosts a conference on “Cultural Diversity and Human Rights,” starting at 6 p.m. at the University of Athens, 30 Panepistimiou St. To tomorrow. For further details, log on to www.museduc.gr.
(19.5.2008) Kathimerini English Edition
Muslim headscarf draws often unwanted attention in Greece
Headscarves are not unknown in Greece. Not so long ago, they were a standard article of clothing among Greek women, especially those who lived in villages. But how do students react to a classmate wearing the hijab? «I had never worn a headscarf until three years ago, when I visited my grandmother in Egypt,» said Nadia, a young Muslim who attends senior high school in the inner Athens suburb of Petralona.
(12.4.2008) Kathimerini English Edition ( by Costas Onisenko )
Ashura mourning ritual
Shiite Muslim immigrants are pictured on Saturday in an industrial area near the port of Piraeus participating in the Ashura mourning ritual. During the ritual, the Shiites commemorate the death of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussein by beating their chests, cutting themselves with knives and whipping their backs with heavy chains. Hussein died in the Iraqi city of Karbala in the 17th century.
(21.1.2008) Kathimerini English Edition
Religious leaders build bridges
Father Timotheos Anthis of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece and local Muslim Imam Munir Mahmood are working together to spread an inter-faith message of solidarity. The duo is holding talks around Athens in a a series of public dialogues arranged by the synod as part of European Union-wide activities marking the 2007 Year of Equal Opportunities.
(7.12.2007) ATHENS NEWS ( by Kathy Tzilivakis )
Religious leaders build bridges
Father Timotheos Anthis of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece and local Muslim Imam Munir Mahmood are working together to spread an inter-faith message of solidarity. The duo is holding talks around Athens in a a series of public dialogues arranged by the synod as part of European Union-wide activities marking the 2007 Year of Equal Opportunities.
(7.12.2007) ATHENS NEWS ( by Kathy Tzilivakis )
Athens mosque a go
After a six-hour heated debate on November 7, parliament approved a bill authorising the construction of a mosque in the municipality of Athens. While all 300 legislators agree that the city's estimated 120,000 immigrant Muslims should have a proper place to pray, the new law failed to still the opposition. Education Minister Marietta Yannakou, whose ministry drafted the legislation, faced criticism from all three opposition parties - Pasok, Communist Party (KKE) and Coalition of the Left (Synaspismos).
(10.11.2006) Athens News ( by Kathy Tzilivakis )
A Mosque in Eleonas
The government's inner cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, on July 25 decided that Eleonas - a neglected neighbourhood several kilometres from Omonia Square - will become home to the city's first official mosque. Archbishop Christodoulos approved of the new Eleonas mosque plan. Athens is currently the only capital city of the 15 "older" European Union member states that does not have an official mosque.
(28.7.2006) Athens News ( by Kathy Tzilivakis )
Mosque on the move
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will not be sending money to finance the construction of an Islamic centre and mosque on a 35,000m2 plot of land in Peania, on the northeastern outskirts of Athens. In fact, no minaret or Muslim place of worship will be put up anywhere near there, according to officials at the foreign ministry.
(9.6.2006) Athens News ( by Kathy Tzilivakis )
Athens Muslims sign for a minaret
AS MANY as 10,000 local immigrant Muslims have reportedly signed a petition demanding the construction of a mosque in Athens - the only capital city in the European Union that does not have an official place for Muslim congregational prayer.
(12.5.2006) Athens News
Plans for mosque go forward but no consensus on site
The mosque set up on Geraniou Street in central Athens barely has room for worshippers. However, reactivating the old mosque in Monastiraki won’t solve the problem because it is also far too small to serve the 200,000 Muslims who live in Athens.
(17.4.2006) Kathimerini English Edition ( by Lina Yiannarou )
Failure to settle matter has rankled sensibilities here and abroad
Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis first suggested getting the Ottoman mosque in Monastiraki, a popular tourist destination, into operation again when she was mayor of Athens. The mosque currently houses a folk art museum. Imam Munir Abdelrasult says the 18th-century building is in a state of disrepair.
(17.4.2006) Kathimerini English Edition
A minaret on the horizon?
In a small, cold and decrepit apartment in central Athens, scores of Muslims trip over each other trying to find a space to pray as rain drips onto their heads from the leaky roof. The stairwell is in darkness and there is grime in every corner. But for these faithful, there is no other choice. About 130 makeshift mosques like this — windowless, airless basements or rooms in warehouses — are all these Muslims have until the Greek capital’s first mosque is erected. “On Friday, many people come here for prayer; it’s a very old and congested place.
(7.3.2006) Kathimerini English Edition ( by Deborah Kyvrikosaios )
Muslims march to US embassy
Protesting against controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, Muslim immigrants in Athens marched from downtown Syntagma Square to the American embassy on February 28. This is the second such demonstration. The first was held on February 4, when Muslim demonstrated outside the parliament building.
(3.3.2006) Athens News
Burial a trial for non-Orthodox
Never a laughing matter in Greece, death is even more grave for the country’s non-Orthodox communities, whose shortage of sanctioned burial grounds has long been compounded by legal restrictions and official apathy by the Greek state. “Discrimination against non-Orthodox believers in Greece also applies in cases of death,” said Dede Abdulhalim, an activist of the Muslim minority in the northeastern Greek region of Thrace, the sole area with Muslim cemeteries.
(13.1.2006) Kathimerini English Edition ( by Catherine Boitard )
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