May 16, 2013 Muslims also want to welcome to Cagliari “with joy” the news of the visit of Pope Francis to the city. “The Muslim world just saw the new Pope, and immediately hoped for a change in the Church, especially with regard to an interreligious dialogue,” said the spokesman of the Islamic community Sulaiman…
(RNS) Leading U.S. Catholic bishops on Monday (April 22) denounced efforts to use the Boston Marathon bombings to derail the push for immigration reform, saying it is wrong to brand all immigrants as dangerous and that a revamped system would in fact make Americans safer. “Opponents of immigration … will seize on anything, and when…
April 25, 2013 A plaque commemorating Constantine’s edict on religious freedom is in the Palazzo San Giorgio in a church on via Torino which was built on the ruins of an ancient imperial palace in Milan. Oasis will have its headquarters in Milan; the foundation was founded in Venice in 2004 by Cardinal Angelo Scola….
18 March 2013 A Scottish Episcopal Church in Aberdeen is now open for members of the local Muslim community to pray alongside Christians, a decision that has been hailed as an unprecedented example of inter-faith cooperation in the United Kingdom. Rev. Isaac Poobalan, rector of St. John’s Church in Aberdeen, made the decision to…
(RNS) Just as many Catholics have connected Pope Francis’ humility and austere lifestyle with that of St. Francis of Assisi, those seeking clues on the new pontiff’s approach to Christian-Muslim relations see another example in the iconic namesake. In a little known episode in 1219, St. Francis left the camp of the crusaders besieging the…
