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A high-level interreligious dialogue meeting, convened by The Lutheran World Federation, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania and Mission EineWelt, closed on 8 May with the official signing of ...

New Egypt’s charter enshrines the rights of citizenship and equality for every Egyptian, Muslims and Copts, said Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St Mark...

When Catholics engage in interreligious dialogue, their aim is not to convert their dialogue partners, but they should not exclude that possibility, say new Vatican guidelines on interreligious dialogue.

Pope Francis sent a Message to the President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Council’s founding. A Mass and a special conference were also being held on Monday in ...

The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation on Monday 19 May. The dicastery was instituted with the name “Secretariat for non-Christians” on 19 May 1964 by Pope Paul VI...

A meeting of Christian and Muslim leaders in the Jordanian capital concluded on Wednesday with a joint appeal for the release of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls. Participants at the colloquium in Amman, which comes just ahead of Pope Francis’ visit ...

The chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace will brief bishops and public officials on the details of a dialogue initiated by a delegation from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during a trip to Iran last March.

Do the choices we make as individuals or collectively lead to increasing peace or increasing violence? That’s the question posed by Cardinal Jean Louis Tauran to participants at a seminar Monday at Petra University in Amman, Jordan exploring the theme “religion and violence.”

On the occasion of the Buddist feast of Vesakh, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, granted the following interview to our newspaper.

To Bishops of Sri Lanka the Pope points to the Church as a living image of coexistence between the Sinhalese and Tamil ·

Dear Buddhist Friends, In the name of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, we wish to once again extend to all of you, throughout the world, our heartfelt best wishes on the occasion of Vesakh.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Dayton recently took a bold step in organizing a conference in the University of Dayton this year on April 8th. The theme of the conference was Muhammad the Messenger of Peace.

I was raised in a devout Muslim home, confident of the truth I had been taught all my life about Allah and Qur’an. So how did I move from believing adamantly in Islam to telling others about Jesus? It started with a friendship during my college days when...

The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue issues a message for the Buddhist Feast of Vesakh to "join forces to educate people, particularly the young, to seek fraternity, to live in fraternity and to dare to build fraternity."

An unexpected moment during the Good Friday service in a long-abandoned church in Cyprus’ breakaway north illustrated how religion is helping to bring together Christian Greek Cypriots and Muslim Turkish Cypriots on this ethnically divided island.

Pope Francis has written to the Chief Rabbi of Rome to wish the Eternal City’s Jewish community – and by extension the global community – a happy Pesach, or Passover. A telegram signed by Pope Francis and addressed to Riccardo Di Segni...

Theologians from different countries and different Christian traditions are gathered in the English university city of Oxford for the 8th international conference of the Ecclesiological Investigations research network. Their three day meeting is exploring the theme of...

A three day international conference on new ways of doing ecumenism and interfaith dialogue concluded in Oxford on Friday. Organised by the Ecclesiological Investigations network of theologians from different Churches and religious traditions, ...

John Paul II was born Karol Wojtyla on May 18, 1920, in the Polish town of Wadowice, where he had Jewish friends and neighbors and was an eyewitness to the Holocaust. A few months before the war ended, Wojtyla rescued a starving 13-year-old Jewish girl at ...

The press called him a caretaker pope. Elected on October 28, 1958, at the age of 77, he was expected to warm the Chair of Peter for a few years without making any great waves. They could hardly have been more ...

Perhaps Ask-a-Muslim’s billboard is intended to point out that Jesus (or Isa, as the Qur’an calls him) is accepted by Muslims as a prophet. Fair enough. But calling Jesus a Muslim entails that Jesus embraces doctrines in both the Quran and Muslim oral tradition...

An interesting initiative has been launched in Komotini to help the earthquake victims on the island of Cephalonia. Cephalonia is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece and is home to more than ...

In celebration of the unique, unprecedented exhibition from the Vatican currently showing at the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization and featuring traditional artefacts and material culture of Muslim communities the world over, the Sharjah Museums Department ...

Pope Francis has sent a message of encouragement to participants at an Islamic-Christian Prayer Meeting taking place in Lebanon this week. Signed by the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the message urged both Christians and Muslims ...

Czech priest Tomas Halik wants to use the equivalent of 36 million crowns that goes with the 2014 Templeton Prize, which he won last week, especially for activities related to the dialogue between ...

...husband and wife Bible scholars — he’s a Christian, she’s a Jew and they both have doctorates — will lead a discussion at Beth David on how people of both traditions view the Bible...

Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Pontifical Congregation for Eastern Churches, has applauded a Rome initiative reexamining the so-called Amman Message on the tenth anniversary of its publication. The Message was issued by Jordan’s King Abdullah II in ...

Representatives of the Catholic, Anglican and Muslim worlds gathered for the first time ever in the Vatican press office on Monday for the launch of a Global Freedom Network aimed at eradicating human trafficking by the end of the decade. Philippa Hitchen went along to witness ...

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Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant leaders in 13 countries—Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, and Estonia—have issued a common message of “vital concern” for their people.