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Slavery and Spiritual Dignity: A Buddhist Response to the Vatican’s Vesak Message
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe Roman Catholic Church issued a Vesak message for the world’s Buddhists, titled “Buddhists and Christians, together to counter modern slavery.” The president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue... -
Vatican and Palestinian agreement helping hand to Christians in the Middle East
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AM"The Comprehensive Agreement" between the Holy See and the "State of Palestine" which was announced on May 13 brings to conclusion a journey that started in 1994, when the Vatican established official relations with the PLO . -
5 Things Having a Muslim Friend Taught Me
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMIn 2014, I made a very close non-Christian friend. A beautiful Muslim woman, deeply spiritual, and full of compassion for others; we spent our days together eating snacks, discussing our religions, and debating some of the intense happenings ... -
CCEE to discuss dialogue with Muslims
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe Council of European Bishops’ Conferences is having its 4th meeting of bishops and delegates in charge of relations with Muslims in Europe. The meeting is being held at the Abbey of Saint Maurice in Switzerland this week and will last for three days. Two key areas ... -
Pope to interfaith gathering: God hears cry of innocents
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMPope Francis has sent a Message to the participants in a major interreligious gathering in Israel. Organized by the Neocatechumenal Way – a group dedicated to giving Christian formation to people who are already members of the Church – the three-day gathering... -
Pope tells Benin Bishops promote interreligious dialogue
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMPope Francis has encouraged Bishops from Benin to support families, to pursue the formation of young people and to promote inter religious dialogue. The Pope was receiving a group of Bishops from the West African Nation who are in the Vatican for their ad limina visit. -
Inter-faith funeral service for 24 migrants lost at sea - Who is my neighbour?
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMOn 23 April, an inter-faith funeral service was held in Malta in which 24 of the hundreds of migrants lost in the tragedy last weekend were laid to rest. The service was led by Bishop Mario Grech of Gozo alongside local imam Mohammed El Sadi... -
Buddhists and Christians, together to counter modern slavery
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AM“Buddhists and Christians, together to counter modern slavery” is the title of the message from the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue to Buddhists, to celebrate the month of Vesakh, the commemoration of the three most significant events in the life -
Holy See: Religion as a role to play in the eradication of poverty
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe Holy See delegation at the United Nations on Friday co-sponsored a panel on “The Relevance of Interreligious and Inter-Civilizational Dialogue to the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals.”... -
Christians and Buddhists meet in Bodh Gaya, India
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AM15 delegates from the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, and 15 representatives of the three main Buddhist denominations - Theravada, Vajrayana, and Mayahana - met at Bodh Gaya, a Buddhist site in Bihar (India), on Wednesday ... -
The Faithful Clarity of a Moral President
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMPresident Barack Obama chose to equate Christianity and Islam. In doing so, he suggested people needed to get off their "high horse" because many things had been done in the name of Christianity. He listed slavery and the crusades to name two.... -
Jordan’s Christian churches condemn pilot’s murder, offer prayers
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMChristian churches in Jordan condemned the Islamic State militants’ killing of First Lt. Muath al-Kasasbeh, a Jordanian pilot who had been held in captivity by the jihadist group. -
In Praise of Slow Medicine
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMI’m one of the biggest consumers of the new faddish approach to medicine – the idea that what will “fix” medicine is right around the corner. Last month, I was mindfully eating raisins and sitting at the bedside of my patients. A few weeks ago... -
Pope Francis: Listening is Essential in Effective Interreligious Dialogue
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMIf it is assumed that we all belong to human nature, prejudices and falsehoods can be overcome and an understanding of the other according to a new perspective can begin... -
Dialogue in Truth and Charity from the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (2)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMDialogue should not stop at “identifying a common set of values, but go on to probe their ultimate foun- dation” – truth which “unveils... the essential rela- tionship between the world and God.” He affirmed that it is “a particularly urgent task of religion today ... -
Dialogue in Truth and Charity from the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (1)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AM"Interreligious dialogue, by its very nature, adapts to local cultures, traditions, languages and worldviews. Partners in dialogue need to be acquainted with these as well as with the local sensibilities and sensitivities to be better able to promote meaningful encounter and ... -
How Buddhists and Christians can learn from each other?
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMOne religion is built around a Middle Eastern peasant teacher executed at a young age, often depicted dying on a cross. The other is based on an Indian prince who became an elder sage; often shown seated cheerfully in the Lotus position. Christianity and Buddhism often ... -
Prier avec les musulmans?
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMLes chrétiens peuvent-ils prier avec les musulmans? Le présent texte, par un consulteur de la Commission pour les Rapports Religieux avec les Musulmans qui dépend du Conseil Pontifical pour le Dialogue interreligieux , essaie de donner quelques orientations ... -
Declaration by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue calling for human and spiritual solidarity
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMAs we reach the end of the meeting in Rome of the four Imams of France, who attended yesterday’s general audience along with the delegation from the French Episcopal Conference, the participants, shocked by the heinous attack on 7 January 2015 on the offices... -
The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue calls for human and spiritual solidarity with the victims of the attack on “Charlie Hebdo” and their families
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMMorning 8th Jan. the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue published the following declaration: “As we reach the end of the meeting in Rome of the four Imams of France, who attended yesterday’s general audience along with the delegation ... -
International Interfaith Events and Ecumenical in 2014
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMReview International Interfaith and Ecumenical events in 2014 -
Interfaith Calendar 2015
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMAl-Hijra: Islamic remembrance of the migration of Muhammad and followers to Medina in 622 c.e. and establishment of the first Islamic state. No specific religious rituals are observed. Islamic New Year. All Hallow's Eve: Christian celebration of mystery combining prayers ... -
Christian-Muslim Summit concludes in Rome
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe members of the III Christian-Muslim Summit of Religious Leaders and Scholars released a statement after their 3-day meeting this week in Rome. The theme was “Christians and Muslims: Believers in Society”. -
Cardinal Tauran: optimism over Catholic-Muslim Summit
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMAn invitation to hold their next meeting in Iran, a commitment to pursuing interfaith dialogue and to opening up hearts and minds to the “other” in the family, school and society. Those were some of the results of the Third Catholic-Muslim Summit organized December 2-4 ... -
Hindu Dharma in Interfaith Conversations
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMDespite the frequent emphasis on Abrahamic religions in today's interfaith dialogue, Hinduism has a rich history of peace and understanding to bring to the table. -
Pope: Muslim leaders must condemn terrorism, the Koran is a book of peace
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMA condemnation of terrorism by Muslim leaders, the "ecumenism of blood" preceding that of theologians, willingness to meet with the Patriarch of Moscow wherever he wants, the desire to go to Iraq. These were among the many matters addressed... -
Pope Francis: I seek communion with Orthodox Churches
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMIn an address upon conclusion of the Divine Liturgy celebrated by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I at the Orthodox Church of St. George in Istanbul, Pope Francis said “the one thing that the Catholic Church desires and that I seek as Bishop of Rome... -
Pope Francis visits the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThis morning, Pope Francis travelled by air from Ankara to Istanbul. The only city in the world divided across two continents, Asia and Europe, it is situated on the banks of the Bosphorus, the river that connects the Black Sea with the Mediterranean... -
Pope Francis: Interreligious dialogue can help end forms of fundamentalism
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMPope Francis has urged more interreligious dialogue to help bring peace and end all forms of "fundamentalism,terrorism and irrational fears." His appeal came in a speech to Turkey’s President Erdogan and other top political leaders on the first day of his pastoral visit ... -
Cardinal Tauran: Muslims and Christians must be credible partners in dialogue
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe head of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, told Muslim leaders in Iran on Tuesday that all minority groups should be allowed to speak openly without fear of “any negative reactions”. He said Muslims and Christians ...