by Sean Reilly | Jul 17, 2008
The scale of the challenge and the glimmer of new possibilities in interreligious understnading is on display at the 16-18 July international interfaith conference convened in Madrid by the Muslim World League. The meeting follows an initiative by Saudi Arabia’s...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 7, 2008
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus and author Peter Matthiessen are among those who have said they will attend an interfaith climate summit being organized by the (Lutheran) Church of Sweden in Uppsala in November 2008. The Uppsala gathering is to take place...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 2, 2008
Leaders of the World Jewish Congress have endorsed a call by King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia for more dialogue between Jews, Christians and Muslims worldwide to reinforce common values among the Abrahamic faiths – writes Maurice Melanes. “It...
by Sean Reilly | May 27, 2008
The leadership of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) has praised an initiative by King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia for a reinforced dialogue between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They said in a statement that they considered it to be an ‘important...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 19, 2008
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, has said religions should be prepared to ask difficult questions and he asserts it is unrealistic to live as if there was only one global faith –...
