Belgium: dialogue is not to be improvised

“Algeria today, to what dialogue does it impel me?” and “Jesus seen through the three monotheist religions”: these are the next two seminars promoted by “El Kalima”, the Christian Centre for Relations with Islam in Brussels. The first will be held today, 6 December, at the Centre’s premises in Brussels, and will have as its […]

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Austria: against islamophobia

“Severe condemnation” was expressed by Paul Schulmeister, chairman of the Austrian Catholic Academic Association, on 1st December, in deploring the recent profanation of an Islamic cemetery in course of construction in Vienna. “We need to react with determination against such signs of intolerance”, said Schulmeister in a briefing to Kathpress. “The fact that numerous black […]

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Germany: a document on Christians and Muslims

The Council of the German Evangelical Church (EKD) presented a second document on dialogue between Christians and Muslims in Germany on 28 November. The document is to be considered both “as a tool to guide members of the EKD and public opinion” on the question, and as a “specific contribution to dialogue with Muslims in […]

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Germany: a pause for Advent

“A pause to breathe” in the hectic pre-Christmas rush, fifteen minutes of reflection and prayer; that’s the initiative of the church of St. Ludwig in Speyer, which from 4 to 23 December is proposing an ecumenical prayer organized by the city’s Evangelical and Catholic communities from Monday to Saturday, between 12.15 and 12.30. The ecumenical […]

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ECUMENISM

Greece: Christodoulos to Benedict XVI

The first official visit of His Beatitude Christodoulos, archbishop of Athens and all Greece, to the Pope and the Roman Church will be held from 13th to 16th December. The meeting with Benedict XVI has been planned for 14th December. The visit also includes a ceremony in the basilica of S. Paolo fuori le Mura, […]

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Belgium: dialogue is not to be improvised

“Algeria today, to what dialogue does it impel me?” and “Jesus seen through the three monotheist religions”: these are the next two seminars promoted by “El Kalima”, the Christian Centre for Relations with Islam in Brussels. The first will be held today, 6 December, at the Centre’s premises in Brussels, and will have as its […]

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Austria: against islamophobia

“Severe condemnation” was expressed by Paul Schulmeister, chairman of the Austrian Catholic Academic Association, on 1st December, in deploring the recent profanation of an Islamic cemetery in course of construction in Vienna. “We need to react with determination against such signs of intolerance”, said Schulmeister in a briefing to Kathpress. “The fact that numerous black […]

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Germany: a document on Christians and Muslims

The Council of the German Evangelical Church (EKD) presented a second document on dialogue between Christians and Muslims in Germany on 28 November. The document is to be considered both “as a tool to guide members of the EKD and public opinion” on the question, and as a “specific contribution to dialogue with Muslims in […]

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DIALOGUE WITH ISLAM

Vital necessity

Inter-religious and intercultural dialogue as “vital necessity”, and the commitment of Christians and Muslims to recall “the attention of the truth of the sacred character and dignity of the person as the basis of mutual respect and esteem”, were some of the appeals made by the Pope during his recent journey to Turkey. During his […]

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BENEDICT XVI IN TURKEY

A milestone

We saw three quite distinct phases in this event which will remain as a milestone in the history of the dawn of the third millennium: from the tension and anxiety of the days preceding the visit due to the reactions that the Moslem world could create and that the mass media have exploited to the […]

di Rubén Tierrablanca Ecumenical Fraternity of Istanbul