Amina Rasul set up an NGO that operates in favour of the population of Mindanao, long suffering from war and violence. Peace, progress and democracy are the values on which coexistence between religions can be built. Manila (AsiaNews) – A few women are taking part in the Catholic Muslim Forum currently underway at the Vatican; one of them comes from …

Imagine you’re asked to examine a problem through a funnel but not told which end to look through. Some people will look through the narrow end and get a wide-angle view of the problem. Others will look through the wide end and get a narrow focus on certain parts of it. Both will be looking at the same problem, but …

Vatican City, Nov 4, 2008 / 11:08 am (CNA) – Catholic-Muslim dialogue took a step forward today as representatives from the two different religions met at the Vatican. The two-day meeting will focus on the need for respecting human dignity, religious freedom and the theological aspects of “Love of God and Neighbor.” On October 13, 2007, 138 Muslims leaders sent …

The right of Christians to build churches in Islamic countries will be among the topics discussed at a ground-breaking summit between Muslim and Catholic leaders in the Vatican this week. The unprecedented Catholic-Muslim forum has been convened to rebuild bridges between the two faiths after Pope Benedict XVI caused outrage by linking Islam with violence during a speech in 2006. …

Vatican City, 4 Nov. (AKI) – Muslim scholars began landmark talks with Catholic officials at the Vatican in Rome on Tuesday in a bid to resolve ongoing tensions between Islam and Christianity and strengthen interfaith dialogue. It is the first seminar organised by the Catholic-Muslim Forum established by the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue and Muslim officials. The three-day meeting …

A three-day meeting between Muslim and Catholic scholars begins tomorrow While the attention of the world is on the United States presidential election tomorrow, the Vatican will be launching a ground breaking initiative on an issue no less momentous for global peace: the dialogue between Christianity and Islam. Twenty-four Muslim leaders and scholars led by Mustafa Ceric, the Grand Mufti …

Groundbreaking Vatican talks to promote interfaith dialogue (ANSA) – Rome, November 3 – Leading Muslim scholars arrived in Rome on Monday ahead of groundbreaking talks with top Catholic officials. Nearly 60 delegates will gather in the Vatican on Tuesday morning for two days of meetings aimed at forging closer ties between the two faiths. On Thursday, the two delegations will …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — On the eve of the first meeting of the Catholic-Muslim Forum, the cardinal responsible for the dialogue said he hoped it would open “a new chapter” in a long history of Catholic-Muslim relations. French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, gave interviews in early November to Vatican Radio and to the …

It matters little whether the Pope had simply mis-spoken or, as the highest-ranking authority of the Catholic church, was enunciating church policy. Now the issue is one of identifying those areas in which a full-fledged debate between Catholicism and Islam must take place. Papal references to “jihad” and “Islamic violence” came as a shock to Muslims, even though they were …

Rome, 3 Nov. (AKI) – Muslim scholars due to meet Pope Benedict XVI and Vatican officials in Rome on Tuesday hope the landmark talks will help defuse continuing tensions between Islam and Christianity. Milanese imam Yahya Pallavicini is part of the delegation of Muslim scholars taking part in the first round of interfaith talks with the Vatican. “In the Islamic …

For two days, from November 4-6, Islamic and Catholic experts are meeting at the Vatican, after years of chilly relations due to the growth of fundamentalism. Everything has now resumed, thanks to the address of Benedict XVI in Regensburg, where he affirmed that religion embraces reason and excludes violence. The most urgent theme: religious freedom, so that every community may …

VATICAN CITY – TWO years after Pope Benedict XVI sparked controversy during a speech on Islam in Bavaria, the Vatican prepares to host the first Catholic-Muslim forum to improve dialogue between the two religions. Around 50 Catholic and Muslim figures will participate in a private three-day seminar entitled Love of God, Love of Neighbour, that includes women from both faiths …

Catholic and Muslim leaders meet at the Vatican this week, hoping to improve ties. Christians’ right to practise in Muslim countries has been a sore point in relations – illustrated by the case of one particular church. From the outside, it looks just like any other church. But St Paul’s church in Tarsus, south-eastern Turkey, is actually a museum controlled …

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Muslim scholars due to meet Pope Benedict and Roman Catholic officials this week hope the Vatican will agree to joint crisis management plan to defuse tensions that flare up between Christianity and Islam. Violent protests in the Islamic world after a Danish newspaper printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad might have been averted if Christians and …

Amina Rasul, convener of the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy, is the only Philippine participant, according to Mindanews, an online news service based in Mindanao, the southern Philippines. The council she helped establish describes itself as an NGO committed to building a “peaceful, progressive, and democratic Muslim Mindanao.” The Catholic-Muslim Forum arose from a meeting of five Muslim scholars …

Although all eyes here are on the presidential election, it is worth noting that an important three-day Catholic-Muslim forum is set to start in Vatican City next Tuesday. The Muslim-born journalist Pope Benedict XVI baptized last Easter has done his best to keep it from succeeding by urging the pope to assail Islam. It’s further evidence that it was a …

PARIS (Reuters) – Muslim scholars make a rare visit to the Vatican next week to discuss with Pope Benedict and Roman Catholic experts how to overcome mutual suspicion and ignorance between Christianity and Islam. Twenty-four signatories of A Common Word, a Muslim call to dialogue with Christianity issued last year, will assemble in Rome from around the Islamic world for …

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 October) – Amina Rasul, convenor of the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy (PCID) is the lone Philippine representative to the 1st Catholic-Muslim Forum in Rome on November 4 to 6. The forum is a follow up to the initiative of “A Common Word” by Jordanian Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, in reaction to the speech of the …

Lutherans Contribute to Ecumenical Reflections on Christian-Muslim Relations Today GENEVA, 28 October 2008 (LWI) – A group of 50 theologians from a broad range of Christian traditions and scholars in Christian-Muslim relations met in Chavannes-de-Bogis near Geneva, to deliberate Christian self-understanding in relation to Islam and Christian-Muslim relations today. The 18-20 October consultation was a joint initiative of the World …

Vatican and Muslim representatives are set to open a new chapter of dialogue in an encounter that is expected to touch on common spiritual principles and perspectives on human rights. It will be the first meeting of the Catholic-Muslim Forum, formed in the wake of widespread Muslim indignation over Pope Benedict XVI’s speech in Regensburg, Germany, in 2006. The sessions …

The aim of the meeting is to speak “a common word.” That was the title of the open letter written to the pope by 138 Muslim scholars. But Fr. Christian Troll says that in addition to words, action is needed. Especially in regard to religious freedom ROMA, October 27, 2008 – The first meeting of the Catholic-Islamic forum that emerged …

VATICAN CITY // A UAE delegation met Pope Benedict XVI yesterday in the highest-level visit to the Vatican by Emirati officials since the establishment of diplomatic relations with the city state last year. Abdul Aziz al Ghurair, the speaker of the Federal National Council, who led the delegation, told Pope Benedict, leader of the world’s Roman Catholic Christians, the UAE …

Jointly issued by the WCC and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches Contact: World Council of Churches, +41-22-791-6153, +41-79-507-6363, [email protected] MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 22 /Standard Newswire/ — Christian communities should improve their knowledge of Islam, be good neighbours to Muslims and bear witness to their faith in an appropriate manner, according to an international group of church leaders and experts …

Gathered in Manila for the Asian Conference of Religions for Peace, 350 leaders of the world’s major faiths tried to turn spears in Mindanao into plowshares. The human cost of conflict there is stiff. In just one day, 213 families traumatized by fighting poured into the town of Datu Piang, the International Red Cross reported. Built on marsh land, that …

A year ago, 138 Muslim leaders from 40 nations addressed a plea for interfaith dialogue to the leaders of the world’s Christian churches in a bid to diminish the influence of extremism around the world. That initiative, “A Common Word Between Us and You,” led to a conference between Muslim and U.S. Protestant leaders at Yale University last summer and …

“Living together in community must take the centre stage of Christian-Muslim dialogue,” said Catholicos Aram I at the opening of an 18-20 October ecumenical consultation aimed at developing a common Christian theological understanding of dialogue with Islam. “The prevailing misperceptions, ambiguities, polarizations, tensions and collision [of values between Muslims and Christians], hijacked and sharpened by politico-ideological agendas and geo-political strategies, …

Christian and Muslim scholars meeting in Cambridge have criticized “human cupidity” identifying it as the main culprit, responsible for the global financial crisis and asking world leaders “not to allow the poor to be forced to pay the price of their greed”. In a joint document, issued at the end of an international conference, headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, …

The aim of the consultation is to provide a space for churches and communions to share their initiatives and theological resources for engaging with Muslims, and to identify substantial issues for Christian theology in relation to Christian-Muslim dialogue. Among the expected outcomes of the consultation is to consider ways to articulate a Christian theological understanding of dialogue with Islam and …

The financial crisis so dominates the news these days that reports on a meeting of the Christian and Muslim religious leaders and scholars pictured here zero in first on what they said about the economy. These men and women of faith would readily admit they look like anything but a group of portfolio managers, but comments on the crisis now …

A group of high-level Muslim leaders condemned the recent flare in violence against Iraqi Christians and said that there was no justification in Islam for the attacks. The 17 prominent Muslims, joined by 19 Christian leaders, denounced the persecution of Iraqi Christians in their communiqué, released Wednesday at an interfaith conference hosted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, according to Episcopal …

The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams today blamed “human greed” for the financial crisis. He joined Muslim leaders from around the world in calling for world leaders to work together to prevent the burden of the financial crisis from falling on “the weak and the poor.” Dr Williams joined the Grant Mufti of Egypt Dr Ali Gomaa at Lambeth …

A multi-national group of Christian and Muslim leaders, including the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Grand Mufti of Egypt, concluded a three-day meeting at Lambeth Palace October 15 with a firm recognition of the need for deeper understanding and mutual respect as they increasingly find themselves drawn together by globalization and interdependence. During the meeting, titled “A Common Word and …

The Archbishop of Canterbury has called for more “just” rates of interest as he blamed greed for the global financial crisis. Dr Rowan Williams said Christians and Muslims should work together to decide what might constitute a fairer system of borrowing, and suggested an alternative to the current banking system. It comes just weeks after he called for tighter regulation …

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will today announce the outcome of two days of intensive talks between Muslims and Christians at Cambridge University. The closed-door discussions are the latest stage in a series of conferences to continue dialogue between the two faiths, prompted by the ‘Common Word Between Us and You’ letter sent by 138 Islamic scholars, clerics …

The Archbishop of Canterbury says theological differences separate Islam from Christianity The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, admitted yesterday that the Christian and Muslim faiths are so fundamentally different that both sides are still unable to understand each other properly. Dr Williams, speaking at an interfaith conference in Cambridge, said that it was possible for Islam and Christianity, two …

A major international conference of Muslim and Christian scholars and religious leaders began at Cambridge University this weekend. “A Common Word And Future Muslim-Christian Engagement”, opened last night (Sunday, October 12th) with presentations by both the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Ali Gomaa. The event is the second in a series of …

The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams is to join Christian and Muslim scholars for the start of a conference aimed at promoting understanding between the two faiths. Dr Williams and the Grand Mufti of Egypt Sheikh Ali Gomaa will be among those addressing A Common Word, a conference at Cambridge University involving academics from around the world. The event …

ASIANAGE By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT London Oct. 12: The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Ali Gomaa, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will address Muslim and Christian religious scholars and leaders from around the world at Cambridge University on Sunday evening to promote understanding between the two faiths. The three-day conference, A Common Word And Future Muslim-Christian Engagement, …

The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that Christians and Muslims faced an “extensive and demanding” agenda as they searched for peace and understanding. But Dr Rowan Williams said there was “good reason” to think that difficulties could be overcome. He was speaking to Christian and Muslim scholars at a conference set up to promote understanding between the two faiths. The …

November 4th will be historic not only because the U.S. will elect its first black president or its first female vice president, but also because Pope Benedict XVI will convene the most important interfaith conference in recent history. Responding to his controversial 2006 speech at the University of Regensburg — in which he seemed to imply that Islam is inherently …

Friday marked the inaugural meeting of the Boston College Symposia on Interreligious Dialogue, sponsored by the BC theology department, the Church in the 21st Century Center, and the newly created School of Theology and Ministry. It was the first in a series of lectures scheduled to take place over the next five years that will focus on the commonalities between …

Religion – ETHICS BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Especially since 9/11, major Christian and Muslim scholars and religious officials have been working together to find ways believers in each religion can live side by side in peace. Next month at the Vatican, the pope is due to meet leading Muslims. This past summer, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia sponsored an interfaith conference …

Courrier international – 12 sept. 2008   Deux ans après le discours de Ratisbonne, dans lequel le pape Benoît XVI associait islam et violence, les relations entre les principales religions du monde se sont détendues, grâce à plusieurs initiatives venues de tous côtés.   C’était il y a deux ans. Le 12 septembre 2006, le pape Benoît XVI, en voyage …

The New Testament predicts that prior to the fulfillment of the Hebrew prophet Daniel’s seventieth week (D70W) an apostasy from sound Bible doctrine will occur among professing Christians (see 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and 2 Timothy 4:3). D70W includes the rapture of the church followed by the seven-year tribulation period and the glorious return of Jesus Christ to earth. The religious …

Christian-Muslim relations were high on the agenda last week when the world-wide debate launched by A Common Word took a further step forward with an international conference at Yale, one of the world’s leading universities. The conference was co-hosted by Professor Miroslav Volf of Yale’s Divinity School and Center for Faith and Culture and by HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad …

I couldn’t agree with this Jewish leader more. Look at what a coalition of Evangelicals in the U.S. have signed up for from the story at One News Now: At the conclusion of a recent four-day conference at Yale University, more than 150 Christian and Muslim leaders from around the globe announced the first step of the “Common Word” exchange …

Many Christians in America have a blinkered view of the Muslim world. Terribly misinformed, they tend to stereotype non-Western Muslims as religious-political extremists, instead of understanding the many and varied expressions of Islam. Equally lamentable is the fact that many Muslims outside America have stereotyped Christians in America as religious right extremists. It’s true, of course, that the religious right, …

The founder of a messianic Jewish ministry says evangelical leaders must be living in “la-la land” if they think Islamic imams will ever say positive things about Christianity, despite the release of a “cooperative statement.”  At the conclusion of a recent four-day conference at Yale University, more than 150 Christian and Muslim leaders from around the globe announced the first step of …

Do not ask, ‘Is he or she one of us,’” says Seyyed Hossein Nasr, one of the world’s most respected Muslim scholars, “but, ‘Is he or she one of his?’” Nasr meant one of God’s, not one of man’s. He was the final speaker at last week’s Islam and Christianity conference at Yale, part of an effort to find common …

[ … ] The Christian, Jewish and Muslim religions have come together, establishing common ground for the common good–certainly a Communitarian one world religion approach to God. The National Association of Evangelicals and the World Evangelical Alliance have committed the Christian community to teaching the good of the Muslim faith tradition at least one week out of every year. The …

The “A Common Word Between Us and You” initiative was the subject of a major conference at the Yale Divinity School last week. The conference brought together over 150 Muslim and Christian scholars, intellectuals, academics and religious leaders to talk about the state — current and future — of Muslim-Christian relations. Focusing on the two themes of the Common Word, …

Posted by Ann Fontaine on August 5, 2008 While Anglican bishops were meeting in Canterbury, senior Christian and Muslim scholars and leaders were meeting in the United States seeking common ground in their different faiths to foster better understanding between Islam and the West according to Reuters. Hosted by Yale University Divinity School, the conference is the first public dialogue …

At the Common Word conference held at Yale University, United States, 150 Muslim and Christian leaders from more than 35 countries, among them Kosovo, and highly respected American and international political figures involved in religious affairs, met to promote dialogue between the two faiths. At the Conference, Kosovo was represented by Grand Mufti Naim Tërnava. Among many meetings by Mufti …

When Indonesian Muslims were making intimidating phone calls and threatening churches in 1998, Muslim women at an Islamic boarding school guarded the wife of a Baptist pastor when her husband was out of the country advocating for human rights in Washington. Some 10 years later, Victor Rembeth cited this experience as a reason why he wants the Baptist World Alliance …

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CNS) — Roman Catholics can play an important role in burgeoning and, by nearly all accounts, needed efforts in dialogue between Christians and Muslims, said a noted Catholic scholar of Islamic studies. “Muslims say they’re comfortable dialoguing with Catholics” because of the church’s steadfast positions on questions such as family, abortion and bioethics, said John Esposito, director …

Evangelical speakers underscore Christian message. On the final morning of the Muslim-Christian conversation held last week at Yale, Christian participants eagerly anticipated what Christian speakers would have to say. Several Christian speakers had grounded their messages in explicitly Christian teachings, such as the doctrine of the Trinity. But there was a general sense that Muslim speakers had more pointedly articulated …

Following a four-day conference, Christian and Muslim leaders from around the world announced the first fruits of the “Common Word” exchange through a joint statement that affirmed their support for religious freedom and further interfaith dialogue based on their common love for God and neighbor. During the “Loving God and Neighbor” meeting at Yale University, the high-profile leaders discussed how …

[email protected] Chances are, if there were news stories this week about Muslims, they were not about the four-day conference that brought Islamic and Christian religious leaders and scholars to Yale University. The 60 Muslims who attended included some top religious leaders from Middle Eastern countries. There were 60 Protestant seminary professors and clerics in the Christian delegation and nine Jewish …

Leaders within the two faiths, meeting at Yale this week, acknowledge dangers of prejudice, pledge to work toward mutual understanding. New Haven, Conn. – In a three-day conference this week, Christian and Muslim leaders from around the world began shaping their own role in reducing tensions and restoring a sense of hope among their followers.With unusual candor and good will, …

* Christian, Muslim leaders meet as part of four-day event to promote interfaith dialogue * Final declaration states Muslims, Christians ‘affirm unity and absoluteness of God’ NEW HAVEN: A conference of Muslim and Christian leaders aimed at promoting interfaith dialogue ended on Friday without any discussions on the thorny issue of religious fundamentalism. The four-day event, hosted by Yale University …

Different parts of my extended family are atheist, Christian and Muslim, with my ethnic background being somewhat more complicated. But I am not particularly enthralled with the “interfaith movement”; it served to establish good relations between small numbers of people, but they have always been held back in two ways. The first is that religious authorities never took the same …

Mustafa Ceric, the grand mufti of Bosnia , right, reacts as Prince Ghazi of Jordan makes reference to him during a speech at the Yale conference. Jessica Hill / The National NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT // When Jordan’s Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad strode out of Yale University at the climax of weeklong talks between Muslim and Christian scholars, he was met …

NAE President Leith Anderson (l) listens to Shi’ite philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr speaks, 31 July 2008/Tom Heneghan“Comfortable candor” is the way Leith Anderson described the atmosphere at the Common Word conference on Christian-Muslim dialogue that ended at Yale University on Thursday. The term is as interesting for its image as for the person who used it. Anderson is president of …

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AFP) — A conference of Muslim and Christian leaders aimed at promoting interfaith dialogue ended here sidestepping the thorny issue of religious fundamentalism. The four day event hosted by the Yale University Divinity School is the first of a series of Christian-Muslim talks to be held around the world. Future events will be hosted in Britain, at …

A Christian Science perspective on daily life. A recent article in the Monitor reported on an interreligious conference sponsored by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in July, and stated, “Top-tier religious leaders in the Muslim world are emerging as major proponents of dialogue with Christians and other world faiths…. Those involved see the initiatives, if sustained, as breaking down misperceptions, …

NEW HAVEN — Participants in this week’s Muslim-Christian conference at Yale University flew home Thursday to Oman, Malaysia, Nigeria, Iran and other places around the globe, but not before they agreed to carry the message of reconciliation with them. The conference, “Loving God and Neighbor in Word and Deed,” closed with a declaration of shared beliefs and concrete steps, including …

This past week Robert H Schuller, founding pastor of the Crystal Cathedral, was on the same platform as Shiek Al-Habib Ali Al-Jifri before Yale University promoting A Common Word Between Us and Them, which is a document promoting the similarities between Islam and Christianity. At the bottom of this post is a link to that website. The only thing that …

Christian and Muslim leaders at the big interfaith conference at Yale have just released a concluding statement. No real surprises. The last point, though, about “threats” made against interfaith participants in general, is quite interesting. The statement: A Common Word—an open letter addressed by Muslim leaders to Christian leaders—began with a desire by Muslim leaders to follow the Qur’anic commandment …

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AFP) — A conference of Muslim and Christian leaders aimed at promoting interfaith dialogue ended here sidestepping the thorny issue of religious fundamentalism. The four day event hosted by the Yale University Divinity School is the first of a series of Christian-Muslim talks to be held around the world. Future events will be hosted in Britain, at …

NEW HAVEN — – The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, a California pastor and host of television’s “Hour of Power,” reaches 20 million Christian followers around the world. Sheik Al-Habib Ali Al-Jifri ranks among the 10 most popular Muslim preachers worldwide, with followers in the United States, Indonesia, Malaysia and across the Arab world. On Wednesday, they shared a pulpit and …

Lost in the fog of alzheimers rage dementia, John McCain has inadvetently made the point that not only is Barack Obama ready to lead America to a brighter future, but the world has already embraced Barack Obama as the long awaited for, truly loved and admired leader of the free world. One would have thought that Barack Obama would have …

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (Reuters) – Two prominent evangelical Christians praised their dialogue with Muslim leaders on Thursday at the end of a three-day conference seeking ways to ease tensions between the world’s two largest faiths. Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, and Geoff Tunnicliffe, World Evangelical Alliance international director, said some in their ranks had criticized their …

Christian and Muslim scholars meeting at Yale University for a discussion on peace and reconciliation this week forewarned that a clash of “global proportions” would inevitably unravel in the near future unless Christianity and Islam learn how to co-exist. “Why have you come here?” asked Miroslav Volf, director of the Yale Divinity School’s Center for Faith and Culture, in opening …

Senior Christian and Muslim scholars and leaders are meeting in the US this week seeking common ground in their different faiths to foster better understanding between Islam and the West. Hosted by Yale University Divinity School, the conference is the first public dialogue launched by Muslim intellectuals in the Common Word group that appealed to Christian leaders last year for …

A dark and dangerous storm of Christian-Muslim tensions is menacing the world in which we live. Not since the days of the Crusades have the relations between these two faiths, which comprise more than half of humanity, been worse. Tensions, deep conflicts, and often murderous violence between our two communities are leaving a trail of blood and tears as well …

Forgiveness, divine love, and genocide discussed on the first full day of the “Loving God and Neighbor” conference at Yale. Tuesday was the first full day of the “Loving God and Neighbor” conference that is bringing together Christian, Muslim, and (a few) Jewish leaders on the campus of Yale University. The day’s meetings were kicked off by two articulate and …

NEW HAVEN — Tensions between Christians and Muslims are less the result of differences among believers than they are the result of their similarities, a Bosnian Muslim leader told a gathering at an interfaith conference at Yale University Tuesday. Sheik Mustafa Ceric, the grand mufti of Bosnia, spoke to a group that came from five continents. More than 150 Muslims, …

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT // In the biblical spirit of fire and brimstone, a meeting between top Muslim and Christian scholars began in the US this week with apocalyptic warnings of inter-religious bloodletting if the world’s two main faiths fail to reach accord. Jordan’s Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal opened the Yale University conference on Tuesday discussing widespread anger over …

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – It might seem naive and simplistic – childlike, even – to contend that worldwide animosity between Christians and Muslims can be soothed by … love. For Christian and Muslim scholars meeting at Yale University this week, though, there has to be a starting point. An examination of love is their starting point. Their formula is simple: …

In conference opener, Massachusetts Senator tells Christian and Muslim leaders they are on ‘the right side of the debate.’ Senator John Kerry kicked off the “Loving God and Neighbor in Word and Deed” conference (also known as the “Common Word” conference) Monday night with a largely unsurprising, but welcome speech. He was, after all, preaching to the choir: Christian and …

Faith leaders’ quest for understanding, commonality begins Tuesday at Yale. Top-tier religious leaders in the Muslim world are emerging as major proponents of dialogue with Christians and other world faiths. With two distinct initiatives this month, they are breaking new ground and sending signals to Muslims and others globally that interreligious understanding and joint action are Islamic values. Those involved …

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (Reuters) – Christians and Muslims mistrust each other so much that a few terrorist attacks could trigger dramatic and violent religious tensions, a Jordanian prince told an interfaith conference on Tuesday. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal, sponsor of a Muslim appeal to Christian leaders to work together for peace, said the two religions must work together …

Rabbi speaks about ‘covenant’[Episcopal News Service, Canterbury] In Eastern Zambia, Muslim and Christian faith communities together have created an advocacy program for those living with HIV/AIDS. Their collaboration has meant a dramatic improvement in the subsequent quality of life and is one of “the fruits of interfaith dialogue,” said Bishop Tom Butler of the South London-based Diocese of Southwark. “It …

CONNECTICUT // Muslim theologians and their Evangelical counterparts are among the 150 delegates congregating at Yale University for what organisers hope will become a landmark union of two great faiths in the global battle against religious extremism. Interfaith seminars have become commonplace nowadays, with initiatives being led by a bevy of statesmen from Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, …