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Support of Germany to reconstruction of the Ali-beg Kapetanovic mosque in Vitina

altGerman Ambassador to BiH Joachim Schmidt and member of the Commission for preservation of the national monuments of BiH Amra Hadzimuhamedovic signed the agreement on financing of the project “Reconstruction, restoration and conservation of the mosque of Ali-beg Kapetanovic in Vitina, Ljubuski” in Sarajevo on Tuesday. The contract is worth 96.754,90 KM.

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Head Imam Dr. Agic congratulate US President-Elect Obama

senad_agic_i_barack_obamaI want to take this opportunity to congratulate you on behalf of the Islamic Association of Bosniaks in North America ("IABNA") on your election as the 44th President of the United States of America. Over the past 21 months your campaign remained inspirational to millions of people, including Bosnian-Americans living in the United States, and your victory on election night was historic.

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First-ever Catholic-Muslim forum to open at Vatican

The Vatican's first-ever Catholic-Muslim forum kicks off Tuesday, two years after Pope sparked outrage among Muslims for a speech seen as linking Islam with violence. The three-day forum opens a new chapter in the long history of dialogue, the head of the Catholic delegation, Jean-Louis Tauran, told the French Catholic daily. The Muslim side is led by the mufti of Bosnia, Mustafa Ceric

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Religious leaders against cartridge ammunition

kasetno-naoruzanje1Naib-u-Reis of the Islamic Community in BiH Ismet ef. Spahic said at the press-conference, after the assembly was opened, that this topic has to draw attention of all reasonable beings. All religions teach that to kill one man is the same as to kill the whole world, but the human mind has been distorted and now, instead to think how to live better, they think how to kill more; Spahic warned.

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Kuwait: Silajdzic met with Emir Sheikh Al Sabah

silajdzic-al-sabah1BiH Presidency Chair Haris Silajdzic talked on Tuesday in Kuwait with Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah about situation in our country and the ways of improvement of the economical situation between Kuwait and BiH. Silajdzic thanked to Kuwaiti Emir on support to BiH and said that the economy is of the extreme importance and pointed out that

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Europe and its far-right politics

masovna-grobnica002It might be good advice that with Auschwitz, where young Austrians were taken to historic lessons, they visit Potočari, near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. For, if they failed to connect the Holocaust with the extreem right political trends in their homelands, then a regular organized excurisons to Potočari Memorial, wehere thousands of victims of the genocide commited in the heart of Europe lie, would be helpful to eliminate this confusion.

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