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Railway infrastructure manager Infrabel has turned an unused room in Brussels South Station into a place of worship for the Muslim employees of Belgian rail company SNCB.
When Muslims are mentioned in international news reports, it’s usually in the context of fundamentalism and extremism.
The Boodschapinstituut, a primary school in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek, has fired a teacher because she has never been baptised.
Of Brussels’ 256 private butchers, more than half do not sell pork or other non-halal meats following the guidelines of Islam.
A new, more conservative Catholic school, Sint-Ignatius, is opening its doors on 1 September in Maleizen, a district of Overijse, just outside of Brussels.
A non-profit organisation in Mechelen has started a collection to establish a primary school for Muslim children.
Belgium is one of the least religious countries in the world, according to a recent study published by market research firm WIN/Gallup International.
The 19th-century Belgian priest Joseph de Veuster, better known as Father Damien, who is venerated as a saint for his work with leprosy patients, is to have a street named after him in New York, w
