Vienna is hailed as an attractive gay and lesbian destination, a recent survey has shown. Vienna’s tourism board carried out the survey on 800 gay and lesbian users of the tourism board’s internet portal. Results show that 91.5 percent of those asked said the Austrian capital was especially attractive to them. Vienna Tourism boss Norbert […]
A Catholic preacher plans to withdraw from his local parish after a gay man entered the community council. Florian Stangl, a homosexual carer of disabled children, received a majority of votes in the recent Stützenhofen parish community council ballot. Viennese Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, the highest representative of the Austrian Roman Catholic Church, gave the […]
High-ranking representatives of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) have defended controversial slogans of the party’s Tyrolean department. The rightist party’s Innsbruck branch warned from “Moroccan thieves” in rhyme on a recently presented poster. The slogan was part of the FPÖ’s campaign for the upcoming Innsbruck city hall ballot. Residents of the provincial capital of Tyrol will […]
Frustrated churchgoers have put an advert in the paper for a new Catholic priest after the local diocese failed to find a replacement when the current priest was moved to a new area. The advert says that people in Taufkirchen an der Pram at Schärding in Austria are looking for a qualified priest to manage […]
Thousands of Vienna-based Muslims will head to the polls this Sunday to elect a new representative of their community.Around 10,000 members of the religious community registered to participate in the ballot which marks the end of a round of votes across the country. Only 100,000 people will have taken part in all of the elections […]
A paralysed man perished when a fire ripped through an apartment in Graz yesterday evening (Weds).Paramedics failed to resuscitate the 52-year-old man after firemen entered the burning flat in the Styrian city. A female neighbour and the wheelchair-bound mans sister had to be hospitalised suffering from serious smoke intoxication. The women had tried to extinguish […]
A Catholic peace movement has come out in support of the construction of further mosques with minarets in Austria.Pax Christi Österreich, the Austrian department of the international organisation, said today (Fri): “It is essential to provide worthy venues for Muslims so they can exercise their religion.”The organisation added it was of the opinion that a […]
A vast majority of Austrians said they have a worse opinion of Google after it emerged that the company garnered information about wireless LAN internet access when preparing its Street View service.Public opinion agency Oekonsult said today (Mon) 90.3 per cent of the around 1,100 people they interviewed told them their opinion of the American […]