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Here is the text of the Final Declaration made during the IV Buddhist-Christian Colloguium held at the Pontifical Urbaniana University on May 6th, under the theme "Inner Peace, Peace among Peoples"

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, will visit England next month to help affirm and strengthen interreligious relations in the country.

Power, social injustice, the threat of extremism and Christian-Muslim relations will be among the main themes of a conference on the situation of Christians in the Middle East. The conference is set to take place next week in Lebanon.

This was the way of the great scholars of the past. Mālik used to say that he hated pointless discussions, and he attribute this attitude to the earliest generations of Muslims. He would advise his students to focus their research efforts on matters that had relevance to their daily lives...

This was a reflection offered Monday at the opening address of the third meeting of bishops and delegates from Europe’s Bishops’ Conferences responsible for relations with Muslims.

The pastoral challenges of promoting dialogue with Islam as an integral part of the Church’s mission is the focus of a three day meeting which concludes in London on Friday, under the auspices of the CCEE, or Council of European Bishops’ Conferences.

Dear Buddhist Friends, 1. On behalf of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, I would like to extend my heartfelt greetings and good wishes to all of you, as you celebrate thefeast of Vesakhwhich offers us Christians an occasion to renew our friendly dialogue and close collaboration with the different ...

Pope Francis wrote the comment “O Francis of Assisi, intercede for peace in our hearts'' on a website after watching the live webcam the Conventual Franciscans have set up at the tomb of St. Francis.

The Council of Bishops' Conferences of Europe will be meeting in London from 1–3 May to discuss Christian-Muslim relations. The meeting will be chaired by Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, archbishop of Bordeaux. Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue will be ...

Like Anthony Mathew and Shahbaz Bhatti, he has "left his mark on the map of Pakistan." His funeral was attended by a "great multitude" without distinction of creed or social class. Close to Fr. Bonnie Mendes, the activist was known for promotion of education and development of the ...

Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, has met with senior Egyptin Islamic cleric Grand Mufti Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim in Cairo to discuss relations between different faiths in the North African country...

The insight that Buddha shares with classical philosophy and Christianity is that we are finite creatures that "thirst," and our effort to quench our "thirst" through created, finite things, however desirous or noble these may be, does not satisfy, does not resolve the problem of "thirst."...

During the week following the International Day of Prayer for Peace, church organizations, congregations, and people of faith are encouraged to make a common witness by participating in worship services, educational events, and acts of advocacy in support a just peace for Israelis and Palestinians.

The Imam of the Great Mosque “Badshai” of Lahore, Maulana Azad Kahbir, has been the first one to make the proposal. He is a friend of Shahbaz Bhatti and a man committed into dialogue among religious communities: the proposal is to visit the “Joseph Colony” area in Lahore together with ...

Il s’agit d’enseignements qu’il a donnés lors du « Séminaire John Main » à la Middlesex University de Londres en septembre 1994, sur la base de 8 textes des Evangiles qui lui avaient été proposés.

Christian-, Muslim-, and Jewish-Americans ages 18 through 35 are encouraged to apply to the Ecumenical Institute at the Chateau de Bossey of the World Council of Churches for the “Building an Interfaith Community” seminar course running August 12 – 30 this summer in Switzerland. May 1 is ...

Traditionally moderate and open to dialogue, the Muslim community in the Caucasus is happy about the election of Pope Francis. "I am sure that you will contribute to inter-religious dialogue and cooperation," the grand mufti said.

Today (Apr.12, 2013), Oasis will make its public debut in Italy's capital with a debate on religions and parties put to the test of democracy. Published every semester by the foundation by the same name, the international multilingual journal created and chaired by Card Angelo Scola has organised a debate on "Transition with whom? Religions and parties put to ...

Mina Magdi, an activist of the Maspero Youth Union, denounces attempts by extremists to divide Christians and Muslims. The sectarian clashes that took place on April 7 in front of the Coptic Orthodox cathedral were manipulated. With false news reports by media linked to the Muslim Brotherhood accusing the Copts of attacking first.

Ralston Middle School seventh-graders Kyle Letak, Sierra Hernandez, Tracy Cavalieri and Lydia Permenter look at an art project depicting the five pillars of Islam. Seventh-graders at RMS were treated last week to a discussion with Sharif Liwaru, a Muslim who visited from the Nebraska Islamic ...

We were Christian, Muslim, Jew, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu and Humanist Millennials who had come of age in the decade after September 11, 2001. All of us were tired of witnessing religion wielded as a weapon to destroy, denigrate, and demonize others. This time, through drumming up controversy around ...

Pope Francis has sent a telegram to Rome’s Jewish community, to mark the feast of Passover, which this year begins at sundown, Monday, March 25th. Below, please find Vatican Radio’s translation of the full text of the message, addressed to the Chief Rabbi ...

The “firm determination” to continue the ecumenical journey and the “promotion of friendship and respect among men and women of different religious traditions” was affirmed by Pope Francis to the representatives of the Churches and ecclesial communities and of other religions, who had ...

Rabbi Abraham Skorka, who co-authored a book with the new Pope in 2010, “On Heaven and Earth,” told The Jewish Week that they devoted a chapter in which they “analyzed the attitude of Pope Pius XII during the Second World War. His answer was, in essence, that we have to wait to...

The new pope, has “demonstrated his profound solidarity with the Jewish community of Argentina in both times of sorrow and joy,” said Rabbi David Rosen, International Director of Interreligious Affairs of the ...

Regarding interreligious discussions, then-Cardinal Bergoglio wrote: “Dialogue is born from an attitude of respect for the other person, from a conviction that the other person has something good to say. It assumes that there is room in the heart for the person’s point of view, opinion, and proposal..."

Jewish leaders have praised Pope Benedict XVI's work to strengthen the historically fraught relationship between Judaism and the Catholic Church during his pontificate. Israel's Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger said that the Benedict XVI's pontificate has been characterised ...

Since papal conclaves have a cutoff age of 80 and tend to elect Popes from their own number, Benedict is likely to be the last Pontiff who can say, "We remember," and mean it literally. As the church's center of gravity moves southward, he may also be one of the last European Popes, and ...

There are authors who believe that practical theology must appropriate for itself an even broader frame of reference. It should restrict itself neither to Christianity nor to the world religions, but should take as its object the desire for transcendent meaning which ...

In my mission to develop protocols for assessing Vajrayana Buddhist contemplative practices, I have investigated models of academic practical theology as prospective frameworks for systematic reflection incorporating both theological and empirical dimensions. Beyond this Buddhism-specific