https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Chants of "Allahu akbar" rang out on Saturday at a solemn Catholic state funeral in the Italian city of Genoa for the victims of a bridge collapse, who included two Albanian Muslims. https://www.thelocal.it/20180818/imam-chants Sat, 18 Aug 2018 18:26:12 +0200 imam-chants A training course starting soon in northern Italy will teach imams and other religious leaders the workings of the Italian Constitution as part of efforts to improve integration in the country. https://www.thelocal.it/20170111/italys-imams-to-get-training-on-the-constitution Wed, 11 Jan 2017 10:07:03 +0100 italys-imams-to-get-training-on-the-constitution Portugal plans to extradite to Italy a former CIA agent convicted over the 2003 abduction of a radical Egyptian imam, a case that highlighted the controversial US secret rendition programme. https://www.thelocal.it/20161230/portugal-to-extradite-cia-agent-over-milan-imam-abduction Fri, 30 Dec 2016 17:36:09 +0100 portugal-to-extradite-cia-agent-over-milan-imam-abduction The Imam of Florence, Izzedin Elzir, waded into the controversial burqini debate on Thursday by posting a photo on Facebook of habit-wearing nuns splashing around on the edge of the shore – only for the social network to block his account. https://www.thelocal.it/20160819/italy-imam-defends-burqinis-with-beach-going-nuns-photo Fri, 19 Aug 2016 20:09:18 +0200 italy-imam-defends-burqinis-with-beach-going-nuns-photo Portugal has put the brakes on the extradition to Italy of a former CIA agent over her role in the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian imam who claimed he was subsequently tortured. https://www.thelocal.it/20160802/retrial-row-halts-extradition-of-ex-cia-agent-to-italy Tue, 02 Aug 2016 09:55:51 +0200 retrial-row-halts-extradition-of-ex-cia-agent-to-italy A former CIA agent convicted in Italy for kidnapping an Egyptian imam under the agency's secret renditions programme has made a last-ditch appeal against her extradition from Portugal, the country's onstitutional Court said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160412/ex-cia-agent-in-last-ditch-bid-to-avoid-extradition-to-italy Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:45:26 +0200 ex-cia-agent-in-last-ditch-bid-to-avoid-extradition-to-italy UPDATED: A 22-year-old man arrested in the central Molise region on Wednesday was allegedly planning a terror attack at Rome’s main train station, Termini. https://www.thelocal.it/20160310/italy-detains-imam-on-suspicion-of-hatching-rome-terror-attack Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:58:37 +0100 italy-detains-imam-on-suspicion-of-hatching-rome-terror-attack The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday condemned Italy over the 2003 kidnapping by the CIA of an Egyptian imam who had been granted political asylum by Italian authorities. https://www.thelocal.it/20160223/eu-rights-court-blasts-italy-over-cia-abduction-of-egyptian-imam Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:04:36 +0100 eu-rights-court-blasts-italy-over-cia-abduction-of-egyptian-imam A Portuguese court has approved the extradition to Italy of a former CIA agent convicted over the kidnapping of an Egyptian imam as part of the agency's secret renditions programme, her lawyer said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160115/portuguese-court-backs-ex-cia-agents-extradition-to-italy Fri, 15 Jan 2016 18:10:16 +0100 portuguese-court-backs-ex-cia-agents-extradition-to-italy An Egyptian student living in Milan, who walked around the city for five hours dressed as an imam, has released a video showing how he was insulted along the way. https://www.thelocal.it/20150218/insults-and-distrust-being-an-imam-in-milan Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:58:00 +0100 insults-and-distrust-being-an-imam-in-milan Italy said on Tuesday it is expelling a Moroccan imam caught on video inciting violence against Jews during Israel's offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza. https://www.thelocal.it/20140805/italy-expels-moroccan-over-death-to-jews-rant Tue, 05 Aug 2014 17:34:00 +0200 italy-expels-moroccan-over-death-to-jews-rant