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Pope Benedict XVI has called for mutual respect between Christians and Muslims to heal tension between the two faiths.
The first forum between Muslim and Catholic officials at the Vatican aim to defuse tensions between the world’s two biggest faiths.
The Pope said “each individual’s… freedom of religion” must be safeguarded, stressing that religious persecution was “unacceptable”.
There was outrage in 2006 when the Pope linked Muslims to violence in the past.
He apologised for those remarks, saying he was quoting a medieval scholar and never meant to make a direct connection.
But it triggered violent protests and prompted leading Muslim scholars to launch an appeal to the Pope for greater theological dialogue, called the Common Word.
That manifesto now has more than 250 signatories.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7713549.stm
Despite the BBC’s best efforts to spin this into Catholic aggression and Muslim compassion, they can’t cover up these comments:
"My hope… is that these fundamental human rights will be protected for all people everywhere.
“The discrimination and violence which even today religious people experience throughout the world, and the often violent persecutions to which they are subject, represent unacceptable and unjustifiable acts.”
The Pope said that such persecutions were “all the more grave and deplorable when they are carried in the name of God”.
Which demonstrate that whatever “dialogue” we enter into with Islam, they will **NEVER **reciprocate religious tolerance, they will never afford us the same respect in their countries that we afford them in ours!
The Beeb mentions attacks on Christians in Iraq and Saudi Arabia’s ban on their worshipping in public. But the problem is far more widespread than that! Barnabas Fund …hope and aid for the persecuted church
The first forum between Muslim and Catholic officials at the Vatican aim to defuse tensions between the world’s two biggest faiths.
The Pope said “each individual’s… freedom of religion” must be safeguarded, stressing that religious persecution was “unacceptable”.
There was outrage in 2006 when the Pope linked Muslims to violence in the past.
He apologised for those remarks, saying he was quoting a medieval scholar and never meant to make a direct connection.
But it triggered violent protests and prompted leading Muslim scholars to launch an appeal to the Pope for greater theological dialogue, called the Common Word.
That manifesto now has more than 250 signatories.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7713549.stm
Despite the BBC’s best efforts to spin this into Catholic aggression and Muslim compassion, they can’t cover up these comments:
"My hope… is that these fundamental human rights will be protected for all people everywhere.
“The discrimination and violence which even today religious people experience throughout the world, and the often violent persecutions to which they are subject, represent unacceptable and unjustifiable acts.”
The Pope said that such persecutions were “all the more grave and deplorable when they are carried in the name of God”.
Which demonstrate that whatever “dialogue” we enter into with Islam, they will **NEVER **reciprocate religious tolerance, they will never afford us the same respect in their countries that we afford them in ours!
The Beeb mentions attacks on Christians in Iraq and Saudi Arabia’s ban on their worshipping in public. But the problem is far more widespread than that! Barnabas Fund …hope and aid for the persecuted church