The head of the Catholic Church and the head of Al-Azhar gave the world yet another powerful witness of their friendship and commitment to work together for peace among the nations.
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Deadly suicide bombing in Baghdad won’t stop Pope Francis from visiting Iraq, patriarch says
Iraq’s top Catholic official said Thursday that a deadly suicide bombing in Baghdad hasn’t thwarted Pope Francis’ plans to visit.
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‘The nuke we survived’: American Muslims breathe a sigh of relief as Biden reverses travel ban
Muslims are breathing a sigh of relief after President Joe Biden’s reversal of the travel ban, which has separated thousands of families since it was issued by former President Trump.
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Pope Francis’ friendship with the Grand Imam of Al Azhar inspired the new International Day of Human Fraternity
The United Nations General Assembly decided unanimously that Feb. 4 be observed each year as the International Day of Human Fraternity, starting in 2021.
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China criticizes Pope Francis over comment on Uighur Muslim minority
China criticized Pope Francis on Tuesday over a passage in his new book in which he mentions suffering by China’s Uighur Muslim minority group.
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How should France respond to latest terror attacks? Look to the Catholic Church.
Could French president Macron’s moves to counter the threat of homegrown Islamic extremism in the end “boomerang,” leading only to greater alienation of Muslim youth from French society?
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A kidnapped Catholic priest was released after two years. Now he’s praying for his captors.
Father Maccalli was serving in a parish in Bomoanga, Niger, when militant extremists from Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin, a branch of al-Qaida in Mali, kidnapped him in September 2018.
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Podcast: How ‘Fratelli Tutti’ is a step forward in Catholic-Muslim relations
This week on the “Inside the Vatican” podcast, Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell and producer Colleen Dulle unpack their takeaways from Pope Francis’ new encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti.”
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First Muslim to ever present a papal encyclical praises ‘Fratelli Tutti’
Jude Mohamed Mahmoud Abdel Salem, an advisor to the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, praised Pope Francis as being dedicated to achieving “human fraternity.”
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Hagia Sophia shouldn’t be a mosque or a Christian church—it should be both
Two symbolic sites, the Hagia Sophia and the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, could serve as models for international and interreligious cooperation, writes Peter Dziedzic.