Marawi, Majority Muslim City in Majority Catholic Country

Marawi, 385 miles south of Capital Manila of Philippines, with 160.000 population is majority muslim city in majority catholic country. It is spiritual center of Mindanao, rich-mineral area with majority muslim inhabitans in Philippines.

Islam lives in the city as Muslims code in day-to-day practices as reflected in elegant mosque, practicing of Islam's pilars from shalat (praying) to hajj (pilgrimage), shariah banking, wearing hijab of women, high tolerance with catholic minority that figure 1 % of the city citizens.

"'To avoid arguments and to avoid further misunderstandings we just plant the cross deep in our hearts,' says Father Teresito Soganub, the city's priest. He added that local Muslim leaders always include him in community discussions to represent Catholics...'", quoted IslamOnline.

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Growing Muslims and Shortage of Mosque in Spain

Fast growing Muslims in Spain need enough mosques to performing worships. Muslims in the country have been growing up to a million from about 50.000 before 10 years. They are now facing dearth of mosque to pray, but they are devoting serious efforts to overcome the problem.

Some local governments in Spain welcome the efforts and realize changing fact in Spain's soceity. "We used to have a dominant religion, and now we have many religions, and we have to find a way of respecting that fact,"...... "Churches were the great public works of the Middle Ages and of the Renaissance. Now I see a day when every large city in Spain will have a mosque.", IHT quoted Mayor of L'leida City of Catalonia.

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