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  • 6 Mar 2008
    Vatican seeks broad-based global exchange with Muslims

    A small number of fficials from the Vatican and senior Muslims are holding a two-day meeting in Rome this week, with the intention of laying the foundations for a major global Catholic-Islamic exchange later in 2008.

  • 3 Jan 2008
    Jewish and Muslim groups cooperate across Canada and USA

    Two major religious organizations, one Jewish and the other Muslim, have unveiled a shared interfaith dialogue project which is intended to reach hundreds of thousands of their members across the United States and Canada.

  • 8 Nov 2007
    Catholics deliver message for Diwali

    Vatican Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, has sent his greetings and best wishes to the Hindu community ahead of the feast of Diwali.

  • 22 Oct 2007
    Supersession

    Supersessionism, or replacement theology, is the view that one religion can replace another revealed earlier in time.

  • 8 Aug 2007
    Spiritual free-diving in a religiously diverse world

    Annegret Kapp describes the experiences of young Christians, Muslims and Jews as they seek to come to terms with the challenges of global religious faith through a special summer school at the famous Bossey Institute.

  • 7 Aug 2007
    Geneva seminar opens global windows on 'religion'

    The World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Institute in the Swiss countryside has been the setting of a major month-long global dialogue on the state of religion in the world - an invitation to honesty, deeper understanding and the renewal of conversation.

  • 10 Apr 2007
    'Pluralism Sunday' to celebrate religious diversity

    Churches across the world are gearing up for the first 'Pluralism Sunday'.

  • 9 Feb 2007
    Methodists are creating a snapshot of inter-faith Britain and Ireland

    Against a backdrop of public questioning about how a beneficially plural society can be sustained, the British Methodist Church is inviting people of all ages and faith backgrounds to take part in the Face 2 Faith photo competition, capturing images that communicate something powerful about positive inter-faith relations.

  • 25 Jan 2007
    Methodists launch inter-faith initiative to combat religious misinformation

    In 2006, the young people of Methodism challenged the Church to dedicate a month to prayer for improved relationships between people of different faiths. They pointed to the 'hostile and untrue' things that are said about some faiths, particularly Islam. Inter faith action, they decided, was hugely important as a way of challenging this. And the first step could be prayer.

  • 22 Sep 2006
    'Christendom' ideology is barrier to improved Christian-Muslim relations

    The continuing confusion of Christianity with the dominant assumptions and institutions of Western society is one of the main barriers to improved relations with Muslims, the UK think tank Ekklesia has suggested today.