Vatican seeks broad-based global exchange with Muslims

Officials 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. Five senior figures from each faith are defining the terms of a...

Vatican paper abandons black-and-white view of the world

The Vatican daily newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, long seen as required reading for those wanting to know the standpoint of the Holy See, but also known for an austere black and white layout, is appearing in colour for the first time – writes Luigi Sandri....

WCC leader and Pope seek dialogue and cooperation

For the first time, a general secretary of the World Council of Churches has taken part with a pope in a Rome service to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which ended last week, recalling the centenary of this initiative born in the United States in 1908....