Showing posts with label Angola. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Angola. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 06, 2015
Angola Officially Bans Islam, Closes Mosques
MOROCCO WORLD NEWS: Taroudant – Angola has reportedly banned Islam, Muslims and has closed the mosques in the country.
After its decision to ban the practice of Islamic religion and the shutting down of its places of worship in the whole country, Angola became the first country in the world to officially ban Islam.
“This is the final end of Islamic influence in our country,” Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said on Sunday.
Angolan Minister of Culture, Rosa Cruz e Silva, announced earlier the ban, saying that “the process of legalization of Islam has not been approved by the Ministry of Justice and Human rights, their mosques would be closed until further notice.”
She also said that the ban must take place because Islam was “contradictory to the customs of Angola culture and it is a sect”. » | Larbi Arbaoul | Sunday, September 6, 2015
After its decision to ban the practice of Islamic religion and the shutting down of its places of worship in the whole country, Angola became the first country in the world to officially ban Islam.
“This is the final end of Islamic influence in our country,” Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said on Sunday.
Angolan Minister of Culture, Rosa Cruz e Silva, announced earlier the ban, saying that “the process of legalization of Islam has not been approved by the Ministry of Justice and Human rights, their mosques would be closed until further notice.”
She also said that the ban must take place because Islam was “contradictory to the customs of Angola culture and it is a sect”. » | Larbi Arbaoul | Sunday, September 6, 2015
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Angola Bans Islam, Destroys Mosques
“The process of legalization of Islam has not been approved by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, their mosques would be closed until further notice,” Rosa Cruz e Silva, the Angolan Minister of Culture, was quoted by Agence Ecofin on Friday, November 22.
Silva comments were given during her visit last Tuesday to the 6th Commission of the National Assembly.
She asserted that the decision was the latest is a series of efforts to ban ‘illegal’ religious sects.
According to the minister, the action was necessary to fight relentlessly against the emergence of congregations whose worshipping is contradicting with the customs of the Angolan culture. » | Sunday, November 24, 2013
Monday, March 23, 2009
TAGES ANZEIGER: Benedikt XVI. hat am Sonntag bei einer Messe vor Gläubigen in Luanda Kriege und Stammesfehden auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent beklagt und zur Versöhnung aufgerufen.
Die Messe unter freiem Himmel in der angolanischen Hauptstadt war zugleich Höhepunkt und Abschluss seiner siebentägigen Afrikareise. Überschattet wurde der Besuch in Angola von einem schweren Zwischenfall vor einem Auftritt des Papstes am Samstag in einem Stadion, bei dem zwei Frauen in dichtem Gedränge zu Tode getrampelt und 40 Menschen verletzt wurden.
Benedikt äusserte am Sonntag zu Beginn der Messe sein Bedauern über den Tod der Frauen und übermittelte ihren Angehörigen sein Beileid. Den Verletzten wünschte er rasche Genesung. In seiner Predigt beklagte der Papst «Wolken des Bösen» über Afrika, die zu Krieg, Stammesfehden und ethnischen Konflikten geführt und Menschen zu Sklaven gemacht hätten. Der Krieg könne jegliche menschlichen Werte zerstören, erklärte der Papst. Versöhnung sei nur durch Veränderung im Herzen und einer neuen Art des Denkens möglich, sagte das katholische Kirchenoberhaupt.
Am Samstag hatte der Papst in einer Messe in der Peterskirche in Luanda die Christen in Angola zu weiterer Missionierung aufgerufen. Als «neue Missionare» sollten sie Anhänger von Hexerei und Zauberglauben zu Christus bringen. Christen sollten denen, die sich von bösen Mächten, Geistern und Zauberei bedroht fühlten, die frohe Botschaft entgegensetzen, erklärte der Papst. >>> cpm/ap | Sonntag, 22. März 2009
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