Date of source: Saturday, October 7, 2006
Arab-West Report Editor in-Chief, Cornelis Hulsman, asked Archbishop Fitzgerald, the Catholic nuntius in Egypt, about the statements of Pope Benedict on Islām. Archbishop Fitzgerald speaks Arabic, knows the Islamic world well and plays Qur’ān important role in Muslim-Christian dialogue. The...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 16, 2001
The Azhar Dialogue Committee’s activities are exclusively visiting Rome. The committee is not trying to change the unfair concept of Islam and Muslims that is firmly established in the minds of Westerners. The Dialogue Committee became the subject of many questions and doubts. The dialogue between...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 26, 2000
The Head of the Pontifical Council for Inter Religious Dialogue sent a message to Muslims on the occasion of the Lesser Bairam. He wrote that the month of Ramadan is a time for Christians and Muslims to remember their spiritual bonds. He pointed out that the UN declared the year 2001 an...
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
The statements of the German bishop Karl Liman on the health condition of Pope John Paul II has broken the iron wall hiding the health condition of the old man who is 81-years old It raised discussions that were never raised in public before about the probabilities of the resignation of the Pope...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 14, 1999
The RNSAW asked father Dr. Christiaan van Nispen to respond to the press reports about the statement of Bishop Giuseppe Bernardini. Dr. van Nispen says the statement of the bishop should be read in its context and should be placed besides many other statements of the Pope and important Catholic...
Date of source: Monday, May 17, 1999
Through their special coordination offices, 450 Islamic societies extended their congratulations to the president of Al-Azhar Permanent Committee for Dialogue between the Heavenly Religions, Sheikh Fawzy Al-Zafzaf, for the decisive and frank position expressed by the "Al-Azhar"-Vatican Committee...
Date of source: Thursday, April 15, 1999
[and Al-Wafd, April 15, 1999.]
The Joint Islamic-Catholic Dialogue Committee, which represents the Azhar and the Papal Council [for Interreligious Dialogue], has condemned the brutal actions being taken by the Serbs in Kosovo.
Date of source: Saturday, March 27, 1999
Islamic-Christian dialogue organized at the Gregoriana Papal Catholic University. Discusses Islamic Sharia (law) as a source of legislation in countries with a Muslim majority, human behavior and the Islamic Ijtihad.
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Dr. Mohammed Selim Al-’Awa, executive member of the council of Arab Team for Islamic-Christian Dialogue, presented in Rome a number of lectures on Islam as a source of legislation in countries with a Muslim majority, guarantees for status of non-Muslims, and human rights in Islam.