Forty killed after attack on Nigerian Catholic church

More than 40 people have been killed in the Nigerian city of Jos, Plateau State, after around 200 Muslim youths attacked Christians near a Catholic church in Nasarawa Jos, sparking retaliatory violence.

Vatican warns over ‘annihilation’ of Christians

Sarawak Christians are looking at a challenge against the confiscation of CDs referring to “Allah” while Vatican Archbishop Robert Sarah has warned that recent attacks are designed to “annihilate” the church.

Adopt dalit-rights report now: Indian Church

Christian and Muslim dalit people are to be given the same rights as their Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh counterparts under an official recommendation that comes after a 60-year struggle by the Church to win the concessions.

Building understanding between Indonesia’s Catholics, Muslims

Young Catholics say they have learnt more about Islam after a two-day stay at a pesantren, or Islamic boarding school, in western Java. (UCA News)

Muslims visit Malaysian church in dialogue

Visits to churches by an Islamic NGO are helping to “break barriers” of suspicion and distrust between Christians and Muslims, their leaders say.
The Islamic Information and Services Foundation (IIS), an NGO that runs theological programs for Muslims, has conducted annual visits to churches for the past five years, UCA News reports.
The latest visit on Nov. [...]

Mosques ok but no minarets, Swiss decide

Switzerland’s Catholic bishops have said the country’s ban on the construction of minarets, the Muslim prayer towers, represents an obstacle to interreligious harmony.
The ban aggravates interfaith tensions and could have negative repercussions on Christian minorities in Muslim countries, the bishops said in a statement Nov. 29, CNS reports.
The prohibition was adopted by Swiss voters in [...]

Cardinal Tauran meets Indonesian Muslim leaders

On a visit to Indonesia, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue President, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, has stressed the importance of dialogue in meetings with Muslim leaders in Indonesia.
After an earlier visit to a mosque, Cardinal Tauran met with Muslim leaders at the two largest Islamic organizations in Indonesia — Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah, UCA News [...]

A question of whom to trust, in Pakistan

Last Sunday I attended a church service presided over by the Archbishop of Lahore, Lawrence Saldanha. There were armed guards at the entrance to the church plus nine plainclothes police placed in the congregation. (Father Frank Brennan, UCA News)
Pakistanis do not know whom to trust at this time.
Christians, who are less than 2 percent of [...]

Pope raises anti-Christian violence with Zardari

Pope Benedict in his meeting with visiting Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, raised the issues of attacks by Muslim extremists in the province of Punjab.
The two leaders discussed the situation and ways to “overcome all forms of discrimination based on religious affiliation,” according to the Catholic News Agency.
President Zardari detailed current situations in Pakistan and [...]

Indon Catholic and Muslim leaders Id al-Fitr cooperation

Bandung Bishop Johannes Maria Trilaksyanta Pujasumarta has made an Id al-Fitr visit Muslim leaders and discussed with them how members of the two faiths can work together to serve society and advance interreligious dialogue.
Bishop Pujasumarta, a member of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and Fr Antonius Benny Susetyo, executive secretary of the Catholic bishops’ [...]

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