The Mosque of Segrate located on the outskirts of Milan has called on Muslims to vote for the centre-left coalition and parties favourable to granting birthplace citizenship. The Segrate mosque, also known as Masjid al-Rahmàn or Mosque of the Merciful, released a bulletin to followers urging them to vote for parties which support granting citizenship to anyone born within the borders of Italy, known as Jus Soli, Italian newspaper Il Giornale reports.The mosque told believers “they have a fundamental interest in going to the polls and in the secrecy of the voting booth, where nobody, except Allah, shines the splendour of his light, sees them express carefully on the valid ballot, putting the X on the symbol of parties favourable to Jus Soli.” The mosque is not the only authority telling Muslims to vote for left-wing parties. A recent issue of the Italian Muslim magazine Il Messaggero dell’Islam featured an article on … [Read more...] about Milan Mosque Urges Muslims to Vote for Italian Left-Wing Parties in Favour of ‘Birthplace Citizenship’
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Italian Populist Leader Slams Pro-Migrant Bishop: ‘The Gospel Doesn’t Say to Welcome Everyone’
Populist leader of the Lega party Matteo Salvini struck back at a pro-migrant bishop who attacked him for swearing an oath of loyalty to the Italian people on a bible, saying “in my Italy, immigration has rules”. Salvini promised to swear his oath of office on a bible last Saturday at a rally in Milan which drew the ire of Roman Catholic archbishop Gian Carlo Perego, also known as the “bishop of migrants”, Il Giornale reports.“Here we are faced with a leader who contradicts himself with the Gospel and with the rosary and on the other hand he preaches the non-acceptance and refusal of the other: yesterday the southerner, today the foreigner,” Perego said referring to the Lega’s past as a northern separatist party. In response to the criticism, Salvini said: “In my Italy, immigration has rules, numbers and limits, as in America and Canada. According to you, the Gospel says welcome anyone? With 5 million … [Read more...] about Italian Populist Leader Slams Pro-Migrant Bishop: ‘The Gospel Doesn’t Say to Welcome Everyone’
Italian Media Shocked by Pope’s $25M Request to Bail Out Scandal-Ridden Hospital
Italian media are in an uproar over a direct request from Pope Francis to one of the largest American Catholic charities to bail out a woefully mismanaged Italian hospital to the tune of $25 million. The Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata (IDI), a Catholic dermatological hospital, has often been in the Italian news over the last several years due to a financial crisis of monumental proportions. A 2015 criminal investigation into corruption at IDI led to an indictment of 40 persons, charged with a total of 144 counts of crimes including fraudulent bankruptcy, the issuance of false invoices, concealment of accounting records, embezzlement and tax evasion. The alleged financial fraud ran into the tens of millions of euros and became one of the Church’s largest economic scandals in recent memory.After suffering heavy declines in revenue—from 50,000 euros per day to only 20,000—new management of the hospital proposed a business plan last summer involving a … [Read more...] about Italian Media Shocked by Pope’s $25M Request to Bail Out Scandal-Ridden Hospital
How to make one big Italian deli sandwich to feed your hiking crew
Some people wouldn’t call 100 degrees picnic weather.I don’t call that picnic weather either, but even though it’s the hottest time of the year, I’m still making sandwiches to take on hiking, camping and swimming adventures. If you need to make a bunch of sandwiches, you can make one big sandwich and then cut it into slices, like this Italian deli-inspired loaf. Contributed by Natasha Milne I liked this sandwich idea from “A Moveable Feast: Delicious Picnic Food” by Katy Holder (Hardie Grant Books, $24.99), one of several picnic cookbooks coming out this summer. Instead of making six separate sandwiches, she takes one large loaf, fills it will all kinds of delicious stuff from the deli of a supermarket and then slices the loaf into sandwiches for six. To save time, you could buy the grilled vegetables from the prepared foods section of the store or use leftovers. Don’t worry if you can’t find a circular loaf; an oblong loaf works … [Read more...] about How to make one big Italian deli sandwich to feed your hiking crew
Slovak police raid houses owned by alleged Italian mafia
Slovak police on Thursday raided houses linked to alleged members of the Italian mafia in connection with the slaying of an investigative journalist and his girlfriend. Slovakia's national police chief Tibor Gaspar told reporters in the eastern city of Kosice that seven men were detained in the raids in the towns of Michalovce and Trebisov. Gaspar says they were detained as "suspects" with approval from the state prosecution. The men ranged from 26 to 62 years old. Only their first names were given. The bodies of 27-year-old Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend, Martina Kusnirova, were found Sunday evening in their house in Velka Maca, east of the capital, Bratislava. They had both been shot. Kuciak's last, unfinished story was about the activities of the Italian 'Ndrangheta organized crime syndicate in Slovakia. Slovak media reported that one of those detained Thursday was Antonino Vadala, an Italian who did business with at least two officials close to Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico. … [Read more...] about Slovak police raid houses owned by alleged Italian mafia