A hundred years after the Balfour Declaration
‘I hate the name of that street. I can’t bear being anywhere near it!’ Afif, a Palestinian Christian businessman, told me. He has good reasons. Balfour Street, in [...]
Interfaith
“Unity of God – Unity in God”
The fifth gathering of monastic men and women and Shi‘a Muslims took place in Nairobi, Kenya in September 2017. The previous four meetings in Rome (2011), Qom/Isfahan [...]
Science and Religion Conference – The Cambridge Muslim College
“Science cannot give you the smell of chicken soup’, declared Albert Einstein. Cambridge physicist Jeremy Butterfield quoted the legendary scientist to illustrate the [...]
The Protestant Reformation: state versus church?
Tf 500 years ago the German, Augustinian monk Martin Luther had not nailed his ultra-famous 95 theological theses to the doors of a church in Wittenberg, what would the [...]
Faith & Learning
Representatives of Muslim and Christian faiths gathered at Saint Augustine church in Kilburn, northwest London, on 9 September 2017, for an interfaith forum. The ornately [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
