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  • 17 Apr 2008
    Churches to meet with Muslim leaders in Denmark

    With tensions running high on blasphemy and other issues, church leaders in Denmark say they will seek further conversations with their Muslim counterparts following the open letter by 138 prominent Islamic scholars.

  • 14 Mar 2008
    Christians and Muslims in Oxford

    The Bishop of Oxford has responded to inflammatory press reports about the debate concerning a call for the minaret there, and the reactions he has received.

  • 17 Feb 2008
    Muslims puzzled over Sharia row, but Evangelicals and inter-faith group urge debate

    Muslim lawyers say they are puzzled that Archbishop Rowan Williams raised the Sharia issue before they have had a chance to tackle some key concerns. But Evangelicals and a progressive interfaith group are calling for wider debate.

  • 22 Jan 2008
    Europe gears up to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2008

    Organisers of events to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday 27 January 2008 say that a large number of civic and faith groups across Europe are due to take part, including British Muslims.

  • 16 Jan 2008
    Evangelical Christians and Muslims meet for historic dialogue

    The second meeting of an Evangelical Christian-Muslim Dialogue took place in Tripoli last week, and is seen by participants as an important step forward in understanding between two faith traditions that have often been at loggerheads.

  • 1 Dec 2007
    Khartoum death calls for British 'teddy' teacher condemned

    Several thousand people marched in Sudan's capital Khartoum yesterday, calling for a tougher sentence for a British teacher imprisoned for insulting religion. But many other Muslims have called for her immediate release.

  • 30 Nov 2007
    British Muslims join protests at Sudan 'teddy' conviction

    As schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons' lawyers prepare an appeal against a 15-day jail sentence imposed in Sudan over the naming of a teddy bear, Muslims in Britain have joined in condemning the decision and calling for clemency.

  • 14 Nov 2007
    Research claims that the British media is demonising Muslims

    An amalgam of research projects prepared by members of an expert panel examining published newspaper articles and reporting the experiences of Muslim journalists has revealed a "torrent" of negative stories and widespread prejudice.

  • 24 Oct 2007
    Muslims pray for rain to put out California fires

    The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) yesterday called on mosques and other houses of worship across the US to offer prayers for rain to help put out wildfires currently raging in California.

  • 21 Oct 2007
    Soundbites, religion and identity

    The latest controversy over Martin Amis's comments about Islam illustrates how ignorant our debate on identity has become, writes Sunny Hundal.