A Short Summer course on Interfaith Engagement: In Theory and Practice
Sitting on a bus headed towards the little township of Fiera di Primiero where our course on interfaith dialogue would be held, little did we know that we were about to [...]
Interfaith
Pope Francis and order of sainthood
It was said that Pope John Paul II of blessed memory was responsible for creating a ‘saint factory’, meaning that he created more official saints than all of the previous [...]
The Father of Monotheistic Faiths
As the Hajj – the great annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Makkah – unfolds, a gigantic, majestic figure offers himself for reflection. Not just for Muslims [...]
Jerusalem/Al-Quds: Bond between faiths or bone of contention?
‘Jerusalem the Golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath your contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed…Oh sweet and blessed country, the home of God’s [...]
Pope Francis in Egypt: lights and shadows
‘Religious dialogue cannot be manipulated’, preached Pope Francis during his historical visit to the lands of the pyramids. Dialogue cannot be used for conversion or [...]
THE WORLD AWAITS A SAVIOUR: WHY?
The fifteenth day of the Islamic month of Sha’ban is the birthday of an eagerly Awaited Saviour, Imam Mohammad al-Mahdi, revered by Shia’ Muslims across the world [...]
Interfaith Engagement in Theory & Practice, Switzerland, 2017
Introduction Between 16th – 21st March, 2017, a group of twenty-two people from eight different cities across Canada, UK and the US took part in a 5-day intensive [...]
Scotland: Giving Unity Wings
The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451. On 27 February, in this prestigious place, which educated seven future Nobel winners and heard Albert Einstein demonstrate his [...]
‘Suffering and divine love’: the way to redemption
The novelist Somerset Maugham had trained as a doctor. In his autobiography, The Summing-Up, he confesses that, as a Christian, he had been taught the redemptive value of [...]
Travelling Across the Pond
In early March, the Director of the Islamic Centre, Dr Mohammad Ali Shomali, travelled to Canada to attend a number of programmes in different cities over a period of 12 [...]
