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Muslims, Catholics hold inter-faith meet in
Vatican
Thursday July 12, 2012 08:40:02 AM,
AKI
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Vatican City: A
group of Muslims and Catholics have met at the Vatican and
exchanged views about their relations "in the current situation of
the world".
According to a Vatican statement, the Vatican's top inter-faith
dialogue official, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran and the president of
the International Islamic Forum for Dialogue, Hamid bin Ahmad Al-Rifaie,
chaired the meeting.
Tauran is president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious
Dialogue.
Participants at the meeting "exchanged views about the relations
between Christians and Muslim in the current situation of the
world", according to the statement.
A second, two-day meeting has been scheduled in Rome in July next
year whose theme will be "Believers in front of Materialism and
Secularism", the Vatican said.
Eight Muslim and eight Catholic representatives will take part in
the meeting.
The Vatican began regular inter-faith meetings with Muslim
scholars after 138 Muslim experts wrote a letter in 2007
advocating dialogue with Christians.
The letter came after Pope Benedict XVI gave a speech in
Regensburg, Germany in September 2006 quoting remarks by a
Byzantine emperor criticising Islam as a violent religion.
The pope later apologised to Muslims after the remarks caused a
violent backlash, saying the true meaning of his address "was and
is an invitation to frank and sincere dialogue, with great mutual
respect".
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