Prime Minister, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache announced in a joint government the closure of seven mosques and the expulsion of two Imams. These measures were justified by the "law on Islam" adopted in 2015, which banned foreign funding for imams and forced Muslim associations to take a positive view towards the state and society.

22/6/2018, during President Michel Aoun’s speech at the inauguration ceremony of the new headquarters of the Syrian Orthodox Church.. said: "The Ottoman Sultanate during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II committed massacres against Armenian Christians during the period 1894 to 1896, in which over 300 thousand were killed...”

Al-Razzaz government hinted last Wednesday that it is not intending to back off the bill of changing the electronic crimes law in the year 2018 from the National Assembly. It announced in a media release that the (by-then) government delivered the mentioned bill and the reasons behind its need to the Parliament on the 28^th of May last month “following the official talks emanating from the Prime Minister.”

Al-Raya Newspaper: Prominent Headlines of Issue 186