Christian-Muslim dialogues receiving more attention

A few years ago, other than a few specialists in Christian-Muslim dialogue, the average churchgoer would have little awareness of the tentative steps taken in dialogue between Christians and Muslims. The Danish cartoon controversy and Pope Benedict’s comments at a lecture in Regensburg re-focused attention on the difficult relationship between Christianity and Islam. Since then, there has been an intentional effort to bring more publicity to the existing forms of dialogue. There have also been new forums for dialogue established.
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Posted: December 17, 2008 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=536
Categories: Communiqué, Dialogue, Documents • In this article: Catholic, Christian, Christianity, interfaith, Islam, statements, Vatican, WCC Transmis : 17 décembre 2008 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=536
Catégorie : Communiqué, Dialogue, Documents • Dans cet article : Catholic, Christian, Christianity, interfaith, Islam, statements, Vatican, WCC

Final Communiqué on the 11th Catholic-Muslim Colloquium

Final Communiqué on the 11th Catholic-Muslim Colloquium

[Vatican • VIS] Today was made public the final communiqué on the 11th Colloquium organized by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the World Islamic Call Society (WICS), which took place in Rome from 15 to 17 December.
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Posted: December 17, 2008 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=537
Categories: Communiqué • In this article: Catholic, Islam Transmis : 17 décembre 2008 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=537
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Vatican and Al-Azhar: promoting a pedagogy of peace

The Vatican’s new YouTube channel has posted the following short video about a dialogue this past week between the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) and a Muslim partner, the Permanent Committee of Al-Azhar for the Dialogue with Monotheistic Religions.

Watch it here
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Posted: February 26, 2009 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=558
Categories: News • In this article: Al-Azhar, Catholic, Islam, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Vatican, YouTube Transmis : 26 février 2009 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=558
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Promoting a Culture of Peace – Vatican-Al-Azhar declaration

Made public yesterday afternoon was the final declaration of the annual meeting of the Joint Committee for Dialogue of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue (Vatican) and the Permanent Committee of al-Azhar for Dialogue among the Monotheistic Religions (Cairo, Egypt). The meeting was held in Rome on 24 and 25 February.

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Posted: February 27, 2009 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=560
Categories: Communiqué, News • In this article: Catholic, Islam Transmis : 27 février 2009 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=560
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Dialogue with Judaism is necessary and possible

Last November, attention turned once again to comments made by Pope Benedict XVI, this time on dialogue with Islam. Precisely as the Vatican was intensifying efforts to open dialogues with Islam on ethical and other practical issues, a book was published in Italy by Marcello Pera that contained a forward written by the pope. In this text, the pope commended Pera’s argument that interreligious dialogue is not strictly possible. The book, entitled “Why We Must Call Ourselves Christian” was an argument for the indispensably Christian character of Europe. Prior to his election as pope, Cardinal Ratzinger had co-authored another book with Pera about Europe’s identity, and so it is not a great surprise that he would write a forward for another book on the same subject by his academic colleague.

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Posted: March 14, 2009 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=564
Categories: Dialogue • In this article: Benedict XVI, Catholic, interfaith, Islam, Judaism, Vatican Transmis : 14 mars 2009 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=564
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Peace and Justice? Mennonite and Shiite perspectives in dialogue

Peace and Justice? Mennonite and Shiite perspectives in dialogue

Seventeen Mennonite-Christian and Shiite-Muslim scholars of religion met together for four days in Qom, Iran, to discuss the theme of peace and justice. The dialogue conference was planned and hosted May 24-27, 2009 by the Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute (IKERI), under the direction of its president, Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi. Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) organized and sponsored the conference from the Mennonite side. The dialogue was the fourth in a series begun in 2002.

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Posted: June 9, 2009 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=578
Categories: Dialogue • In this article: interfaith, Islam, Mennonite, Mennonite World Conference, Shiite Transmis : 9 juin 2009 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=578
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US Muslims and Catholics discuss role of faith in the public square

US Muslims and Catholics discuss role of faith in the public square

Muslims and Catholics discussed religion in the public square at an interreligious dialogue, October 25-27, in Milwaukee. Deliberations began with a well-attended public lecture entitled, “Faithful Citizenship – Catholic and Muslim Engagement in Civic Life” at the Islamic Center School. The Catholic perspective was presented by Michael Hovey, coordinator of the Office for Ecumenical and Interfaith Affairs of the Archdiocese of Detroit. The Islamic perspective was given by Dr. Irfan Omar, Professor of Islamic Studies at Marquette University.

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Posted: November 13, 2009 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=615
Categories: News • In this article: Catholic, Islam Transmis : 13 novembre 2009 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=615
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Catholics and Muslims Against Manipulation of Religions

Catholics and Muslims Against Manipulation of Religions

The annual meeting of the Joint Committee for Dialogue of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue and the Permanent Committee of al-Azhar for Dialogue among the Monotheistic Religions, was held in the Egyptian capital city of Cairo on 23 and 24 February.
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Posted: March 2, 2010 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=627
Categories: Dialogue • In this article: Al-Azhar, Catholic, interfaith, Islam, Vatican Transmis : 2 mars 2010 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=627
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International Christian-Muslim consultation opens in Geneva

“Our theology is not the same,” said Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan, “but we are all in the same boat.” The prince was addressing an assembly of Christians and Muslims gathered in Geneva, Switzerland to mark the beginning on Monday of a four-day international consultation on Muslim-Christian dialogue.
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Posted: November 2, 2010 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=1776
Categories: WCC News • In this article: Islam Transmis : 2 novembre 2010 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=1776
Catégorie : WCC News • Dans cet article : Islam

Tehran-Vatican dialogue affirms religious freedom

The Centre for Inter-Religious Dialogue of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organisation (Tehran, Iran) and the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue held their seventh colloquium in Tehran from 9 to 11 November under the joint presidency of Mohammad Baqer Khorramshad, president of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organisation, and of Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue.
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Posted: November 16, 2010 • Permanent link: ecu.net/?p=1608
Categories: Communiqué, Dialogue • In this article: Catholic, interfaith, Iran, Islam, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, religious freedom, Vatican Transmis : 16 novembre 2010 • Lien permanente : ecu.net/?p=1608
Catégorie : Communiqué, Dialogue • Dans cet article : Catholic, interfaith, Iran, Islam, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, religious freedom, Vatican