Top Muslim scholars announce boycott of dialogue with Vatican
Top Muslim academics in Egypt have announced they are suspending all dialogue with the Vatican to protest Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks about anti-Christian violence in Egypt. The decision of Sheik Ahmad...
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The decision, reported on this page, of certain “top Muslim scholars” to suspend all dialogue with the Vatican in protest against Pope Benedict XVI’s condemnation of anti-Christian violence in Egypt is...
View ArticleCatholic-Muslim dialogue is at the end of the road
A week ago, I wrote a blog with the headline “Top Muslim scholars seem to be telling us that dialogue with them is a waste of time”: the president of the al-Azhar University in Cairo had broken off...
View ArticleBenetton withdraws advert of Pope kissing Muslim leader
The Italian fashion house Benetton has withdrawn an advert depicting Pope Benedict XVI kissing a Muslim leader hours after it was condemned by the Vatican. The campaign is entitled “Unhate” and...
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US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will deliver a 10-minute speech at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences today (John Allen, Massimo Faggioli). The Church should abandon “just war” theory,...
View ArticleFrancis to hold unprecedented meeting with top Sunni Muslim leader
Pope Francis will receive the highest authority in Sunni Islam in an unprecedented meeting at the Vatican on Monday. The meeting between Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, grand imam of al-Azhar, Cairo, and Pope...
View ArticleVatican working to re-establish dialogue with leading Sunni university
The Vatican and Sunni Islam’s leading institution of higher learning have begun looking for ways to restart formal dialogue. Acting on Pope Francis’s expressed desire, the Pontifical Council for...
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Cardinal Joseph Zen has said that he has written “many letters” to Pope Francis expressing concern at a Vatican-China deal, but “he doesn’t answer my letters”. Vatican Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran begins...
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A conference hosted by Al-Azhar University could transform Christian-Muslim relations, participants have said (French report). Pope Francis will make a day-long pastoral visit to Milan on Saturday....
View Article‘It’s a trip of unity, of fraternity’: Pope begins two-day visit to Egypt
Pope Francis came to Egypt on Friday for a historic visit to the Arab and Muslim-majority nation aimed at presenting a united Christian-Muslim front to repudiate violence committed in God’s name. The...
View ArticlePope Francis urges Egypt’s imams to ‘unmask violence’ in God’s name
Pope Francis has urged Egypt’s leading imams on Friday to teach their students to reject violence in God’s name and preach messages of peace and tolerance instead, forging ahead with a delicate visit...
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Venezuela’s bishops have presented the Pope with a dossier of deaths at anti-government protests. Vietnam’s bishops have expressed alarm at a new law on religion. South Korea’s Catholic population has...
View ArticleTop Muslim scholars announce boycott of dialogue with Vatican
Top Muslim academics in Egypt have announced they are suspending all dialogue with the Vatican to protest Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks about anti-Christian violence in Egypt. The decision of Sheik Ahmad...
View Article‘Top Muslim scholars’ seem to be telling us that dialogue with them is a...
The decision, reported on this page, of certain “top Muslim scholars” to suspend all dialogue with the Vatican in protest against Pope Benedict XVI’s condemnation of anti-Christian violence in Egypt is...
View ArticleTop Muslim scholars announce boycott of dialogue with Vatican
Top Muslim academics in Egypt have announced they are suspending all dialogue with the Vatican to protest Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks about anti-Christian violence in Egypt. The decision of Sheik Ahmad...
View Article‘Top Muslim scholars’ seem to be telling us that dialogue with them is a...
The decision, reported on this page, of certain “top Muslim scholars” to suspend all dialogue with the Vatican in protest against Pope Benedict XVI’s condemnation of anti-Christian violence in Egypt is...
View ArticleCatholic-Muslim dialogue is at the end of the road
A week ago, I wrote a blog with the headline “Top Muslim scholars seem to be telling us that dialogue with them is a waste of time”: the president of the al-Azhar University in Cairo had broken off...
View ArticleBenetton withdraws advert of Pope kissing Muslim leader
The Italian fashion house Benetton has withdrawn an advert depicting Pope Benedict XVI kissing a Muslim leader hours after it was condemned by the Vatican. The campaign is entitled “Unhate” and...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 15/04/16
US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will deliver a 10-minute speech at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences today (John Allen, Massimo Faggioli). The Church should abandon “just war” theory,...
View ArticleFrancis to hold unprecedented meeting with top Sunni Muslim leader
Pope Francis will receive the highest authority in Sunni Islam in an unprecedented meeting at the Vatican on Monday. The meeting between Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, grand imam of al-Azhar, Cairo, and Pope...
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