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‘Jihad recruiters’ held in SpainMonday, 28 May 2007, 08:38 GMT 09:38 UKSpanish police have arrested 14 suspected Islamist militants, mostly in the north-eastern region of Catalonia. The suspects were allegedly involved in recruiting jihadi volunteers for training in Afghanistan and Iraq.Police in Catalonia detained 11 in Barcelona and other towns. The others were arrested in Madrid and Malaga. The interior ministry believes the majority of those arrested are Moroccan nationals. Police have confiscated a considerable amount of computer data. Twenty-nine suspected Islamists - most of them Moroccans - are currently on trial for the deadly Madrid train bombings in...

Woman "kidnaps" son four times for ransom MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish woman staged fake kidnappings of her son four times and got his father to pay her more than a million euros ($1.26 million) in ransom money, newspaper El Mundo reported Friday. Police in the southern Spanish city of Seville arrested the woman and five accomplices, including the 15-year-old son who cooperated in the deception by calling his father on the telephone and begging him to pay up. The father paid ransoms after the first three fake abductions without realizing the involvement of his son's mother, from whom he...

St. Leander, a close friend of St. Gregory the Great, was born in Carthagena to a family of high nobility. He was the eldest brother of several saints. His brother, St. Isidore, succeeded him as Bishop of Seville. Another brother, St. Fulgentius, became Bishop of Carthagena, and his sister, St. Florentina, became an Abbess in Carthagena. When he was still young, Leander retired to a Benedictine monastery where he became a model of learning and piety. In 579 he was raised to the episcopal see of Seville, where he continued to practice his customary austerities and penances. At that time,...

As my freeper friends are aware, my mother is an immigrant from Seville, Spain, while my father is an Spanish-American whose family has lived in Florida since 1821, just when America was begining to take control of Florida from Spanish control. I still have relatives living in Seville and Valencia, including an elderly aunt. My Spanish family is outraged by the massacre perpetrated by Islamo-fascists. They are also angry at the government of Prime Minister Aznar, for not having done enough to protect the Spanish people from terrorism, especially when Spain was heading for the election season when the government...

Reputed Columbus Remains in Spain Exhumed By CIARAN GILES, Associated Press Writer MADRID, Spain - A chest containing the supposed remains of Christopher Columbus was exhumed Monday for DNA and other tests to determine whether the bones are really those of the famed explorer. The test aims to settle a long debate over where Colombus is buried: in Spain's Seville Cathedral or in a sprawling monument in the Dominican Republic's capital, Santo Domingo. In the presence of two descendants of Columbus — Jaime and Anunicada Colon de Carvajal — researchers removed two boxes from an ornate tomb at the cathedral...

Click image to enlarge: Thousands of anti-globalization activists hold banners and flags during a march through Seville against the European Union summit,in Seville, Spain, Saturday, June 22, 2002. The march was organized to protest some of the policies, including immigration policies, of the European Union leaders who are currently meeting in Seville for a summit. White banner in front reads: No Person is Illegal. The Social Forum of Seville. (AP Photo/Cristina Quicler) - Jun 22 4:01 PM ET Anti-globalization activists hold a poster with the picture of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar which says "The midget dictator" during a...

EU Leaders Agree on Immigration Steps By ROBERT WIELAARDAssociated Press Writer SEVILLE, Spain (AP)--European Union leaders vowed Friday to curb immigration but held off on punishing poor nations that do not stop their citizens from seeking illegal work in Europe. The leaders at the summit in Seville, some of whom slipped away to watch World Cup games, said they would create order in the hodgepodge of national immigration and asylum laws, and move toward a more equal treatment across the region. They also would seek ``cooperation and partnership'' accords to reward nations that curb the movement of illegals to Europe,...