August 1, 2014 A Sudanese woman who fled to Italy after being spared a death sentence for renouncing Islam has arrived in the US. Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag arrived in New Hampshire on Thursday evening with her American husband and her children. Welcoming her on a brief stopover in Philadelphia, the city’s mayor, Michael Nutter,…
February 28, 2014 The pope’s idea: to be accompanied by a representative from each monotheistic religion during his visit in May to the Holy Land Pope Francis wants to be accompanied by a leading Jewish person and one Muslim on his next trip to the Holy Land. He confirmed this during a meeting…
January 28, 2014 Vatican City – The book series “Religious History in the Euro-Mediterranean” begins with the volume “From Constantinople to the Caucasus. Empires and peoples of Christianity and Islam.” The new series sponsored by the Fondazione Ambrosiana Paolo VI, in collaboration with the Libreria Editrice Vaticana aims to present the history and religious…
December 4, 2013 Vatican City – The Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Msgr. Miguel Angel Ayuso, met Tuesday in Cairo with a senior scholar specializing in the Sunni Islam faith, said a Vatican spokesman. Ayuso met for 45 minutes with Abbas Shouman, the second-highest official with Al Azhar University, a world-renowned…
The President of the Pontifical Council defends the decision of Ticino. “It’s about internal security, I do not see the problem” “It is a decision that the people of Ticino made without regard to religious significance and therefore is not against Islam. This decision was based on an internal security threat.” It is with…
