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Tom Heneghan, for Religion News Service:Muslim theology faculties develop an ‘Islam for Germany’(RNS) While Germany’s politicians are loudly debating whether Islam is compatible with democracy, five...
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Drew Christiansen in NCR -Twenty years have passed since seven monks from the Trappist Priory of Our Lady of the Atlas at Tibhirine, Algeria, were kidnapped by members of the Armed Islamic Group,...
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Thomas D. Williams in Crux -At different times, two celebrated German prelates have offered radically different opinions regarding Islam’s compatibility with Western civilization.One, the current...
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Fr Anthony Egan SJ, for The Jesuit Institute:Pope Francis on IslamI really like to see, amidst the populist appeals of many politicians to the lowest – the very lowest – common denominator in...
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Francis X. Clooney, SJ in America Magazine -When I was a child, as I vaguely remember, there was some official Vatican publication known as “The Pope Speaks.” When I look back, I recall it to be...
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Ines San Martin -After his historic meeting on Monday with Pope Francis in the Vatican, the Grand Imam of Egypt’s al-Azhar mosque said the “rivers of blood” in the Middle East must end, and warned...
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The Catholic Herald -Christians have a mission to convert all Muslims, according to one of Pope Francis’s senior aides.Cardinal Kurt Koch, who leads ecumenical relations for the Vatican, made the...
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Zenit has provided an English translation of the Vatican Radio interview with the Grand Imam of al-Azhar:Interview With Grand Imam of al-AzharFollowing Meeting Between Pope, Leading Authority on Sunni...
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ANDREA TORNIELLI in La Stampa/Vatican Insider -“Our meeting is the message.” With these words, in the library of the Apostolic Palace, at noon yesterday, Francis greeted the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar,...
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John Allen in Crux -From the “it’s not easy being pope” files, a recent story in Rome illustrates how Pope Francis faces a challenge these days of doing two big things at once, which don’t always sit...
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CWN - Bishop Miguel Ayuso Guixot, the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, will travel to Egypt soon to meet with leaders of Al Azhar University, the Vatican announced on...
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RTE A senior adviser to Pope Francis has said he is worried about the anti-Muslim rhetoric of presumptive US Republican Party candidate Donald Trump.In an interview with RTÉ News, Cardinal Seán...
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David Gibson in RNS -Amid heightened tensions over ISIS-fueled terror attacks and anti-Muslim rhetoric, a prominent U.S. cardinal says Islam “wants to govern the world” and Americans must decide if...
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Editor of Catholic World Report -The following in Part 2 of interview with Cardinal Kurt Koch, head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, conducted by Armin Schwibach and published...
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Raphael Satter and Colleen Barry, for Associated Press:Muslims go to Catholic Mass across France to show solidarityPARIS (AP) -- In a gesture of solidarity following the gruesome killing of a French...
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ANDREA TORNIELLI in La Stampa/Vatican Insider -The Pope’s response to the violence unleashed by Islamic terrorists is not “do-goodery”. It is a “powerful and determined response”. The gesture of...
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David Stewart, for America Magazine:As Tensions Mount, Avoiding a Clash of ReligionsPope Francis reminds us that Christians are not engaged in a war with Islam but with extremismWhat on earth is...
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John L. Allen Jr., for Crux:On Islam and violence, Pope + Patriarch = Full StoryThe hard truth about Islam today is that it’s alternately both peaceful and violent, that it projects both tolerance and...
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Andrea Tornielli, for Vatican Insider:King of Morocco calls for common front to counter jihadist fanaticismMohammed VI’s speech to fellow-citizens living abroad and the letter Ayatollah Makarem...
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Paul Moses, for Commonweal:Cardinal Burke, Islam and the CrusadesCardinal Raymond Burke is evidently keeping busy by promoting a new book, and to that end he has been serving his interviewers the...
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