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ROME, Dimanche 24 juillet 2011 - La miséricorde, qui est le nom de Dieu, est un mot clé pour le dialogue entre chrétiens, juifs et musulmans, estime le cardinal Philippe Barbarin, archevêque de Lyon.

The Second International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy, scheduled for 6-7 June 2012 at the Georgetown University Law Center (pictured) in Washington, D.C., will feature representatives from three major religions: Catholicism, Islam, and Judaism.

The mystery of the Eucharist – sacrifice, presence, banquet – does not allow for reduction or exploitation; it must be experienced and lived in its integrity, both in its celebration and in the intimate converse with Jesus which takes place after receiving communion or in a prayerful moment of Eucharistic adoration apart from Mass.

Certainly Mary must have been present at the Eucharistic celebrations of the first generation of Christians, who were devoted to “the breaking of bread” (Acts 2:42).

But certainly from the time of Jesus on, the event of Holy Thursday has shown visible traces of a liturgical “sensibility” shaped by Old Testament tradition and open to being reshaped in Christian celebrations in a way consonant with the new content of Easter.

The Eucharist thus appears as the culmination of all the sacraments in perfecting our communion with God the Father by identification with his only-begotten Son through the working of the Holy Spirit...

The second sense in which the Church is apostolic, as the Catechism points out, is that “with the help of the Spirit dwelling in her, the Church keeps and hands on the teaching, the 'good deposit', the salutary words she has heard from the Apostles”.

A causal influence of the Eucharist is present at the Church's very origins. The Evangelists specify that it was the Twelve, the Apostles, who gathered with Jesus at the Last Supper...

The development of relations between Christians and Jews in the 50 years since Vatican II's Nostra aetate was the focus of a conference hosted today by the Pontifical Angelicum University. The conference, titled "Building on 'Nostra aetate': 50 Years of Christian-Jewish Dialogue," was organized by the John Paul II Center for Interreligious Dialogue, in collaboration with the Russell Berrie Foundation.

Une délégation libanaise, emmenée par le moine libanais Maroun Atallah dans le cadre de son programme «Reconstruire ensemble », est venue passer la Semaine sainte (2012) à Kirkouk.

With some 50 representatives of Sunni Islam, Arab tribal leaders and local government officials, he signed a document "Let us build bridges of peace," released Thursday, as reported by Aid to the Church in Need.

It's a public health project of the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis, which pitches in by paying rent for the clinic offices. Many of the volunteers attend the mosque.

In this second part of our report on Maria Voce’s trip to America (April 2011), we go to Chicago, where two important events took place.

On behalf of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, I am happy to offer again, this year, heartfelt congratulations on the occasion of Vesakh/Hanamatsuri. It is my wish that this annual feast may bring joy and serenity to the hearts of all of you throughout the world.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Vatican-Jewish dialogue commission said moderation, honesty and a fair distribution of world resources are the ingredients for a more just economic order.

“If people were to know what has taken place so far,” superior court judge David Shaheed from Indianapolis said, “it would be more instructive than anything else. We’ve brought our communities together, showing how positive dialogue can result in concrete action.”

The wide-ranging conversation covered topics including the exodus of Christians from the Middle East, the situation in the Holy Land, discrimination against Muslims in Europe, and inter-religious dialogue. Drawing on his years of experience in the Middle East, Cardinal Tauran said, “Christians have the feeling [that] they are 'second class citizens' in countries where Muslims are the majority”.

In the Chaldean cathedral of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, the Archbishop Mgr. Louis Sako has met with about 35 boys and girls, Muslims and Christians, on "non-violence and peaceful coexistence" among the faithful of the two great monotheistic religions. The event was held in the late afternoon of March 3: For the third time the young people held animated discussions and exchanges, to strengthen the hopes and expectations of interfaith harmony in the city.

I have sometimes invited Muslim friends to a cup of tea and asked if they would like to discuss the message of the Bible. This has resulted in long informal Bible studies.

Deux personnes de religions différentes se marient. C'est une réalité sociale que l'on rencontre partout. Un tel mariage dans lequel un des deux conjoints est catholique - c'est le genre de mariage que nous étudierons ici - est un mariage mixte selon les termes de la pastorale canonique. J'étudierai de tels mariages uniquement d'un point de vue anthropologique - ce qui en langage de tous les jours signifie: selon le sens commun !

Extraits des discours prononcés le jeudi 27 octobre 2011 sur la place des Droits de l’Homme, parvis du Trocadéro, à Paris durant la Rencontre des religions pour la Paix avec les responsables des grandes religions en France à l’occasion des vingt-cinq ans de la rencontre des grandes religions à Assise en 1986.

The National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) is a founding partner in this dialogue on behalf of member churches. Our dialogue partners are: The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils and The Executive Council of Australian Jewry.

A significant number of inter-religious organizations have begun operating around the world to increase religious tolerance and cooperation. Below is a list of well-reputed groups, along with brief excerpts about them.

Dialogue Interreligieux Monastique / Monastic Interreligious Dialogue (DIMMID) is an international monastic organization that promotes and supports dialogue, especially dialogue at the level of religious experience and practice, between Christian monastic men and women and followers of other religions.

The Institute of Interfaith Dialog (IID) grew out of the need to address the question, "How can citizens of the world live in peace and harmony?" The Institute was established in 2002 as a 501-c-3 non-profit educational organization by Turkish-Americans and their friends. The Institute aims to eliminate or reduce false stereotypes, prejudices and unjustified fears through direct human communication.

Today something new is occurring in the relations of these two religions. In this city named after the most sacred "Queen of Angels" of Christianity, large Buddhist and Christian communities live side by side. the great wave of Asian immigration into Los Angeles coincided with a new openness towards other religions in Catholicism, promulgated by the decree, "Nostra Aetate," (Declaration of Non-Christian Religions) of the Second Vatican council in 1965. It set the stage for a real dialogue

On Pentecost Sunday, 1964, Pope Paul VI instituted a special department of the Roman Curia for relatons with the people of other religions. Know at first as the Secretariat for Non Christians, in 1988 it was renamed the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID).

The spirit of Assisi: it was Pope John Paul II who coined the expression. Since October 27th 1986, this "spirit" has been felt a little everywhere, losing none of the power of its first flowering. I have no intention of playing the old gardener, but, having been a fascinated witness of its germination in the Pope's thought and the privileged artisan of its blooming, I feel I can affirm: on that day I heard the world's heart-beat.

This year Vesak, the most important Buddhist festivity, is celebrated on 8 April in Japan, on 10 May in Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore, and on 17 May in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos. The feast marks the birth, enlightenment and passing away of Buddha.