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Antwerp mayor Bart De Wever (pictured) has rejected a request by the Belgian anti-Islam movement Pegida Vlaanderen (formerly called Vlativa) to stage a march on Monday in the city.
A 38-year-old Moroccan man was sentenced on Friday by a court in Brussels to 27 years in prison for arson in the Rida mosque, the largest Shia mosque in Brussels, in March, 2012.
Belgian Prime minister Charles Michel (MR) will meet with Pope Francis next Tuesday, November 25 in Strasbourg, in the framework of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of Europe.
Thirteen-year-old Saranjit Singh from Sint-Truiden, Limburg province, is allowed to continue wearing a turban to school, according to a ruling by the Council of State.
The shooting death of three people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels last month sent a shock wave through Belgium but perhaps nowhere as much as in Jewish quarters.
