Muslim Official Visits Church, Temples
April 2, 2008 The Washington Post
In Malaysia, a Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party lawmaker, Khalid Abdul Samad, has been making rare visits to a church and a temple in order to reassure non-Muslims of Malaysia that his party does not seek to curb their religious rights. Read about this attempt to promote religious reconciliation here.
Conservative Lawyer Explains His Support for Obama
March 25, 2008, The Blog of Legal Times
Former dean of Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law, Professor Douglas Kmiec, once served in the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Until recently, he was an active campaigner for Mitt Romney for President. Now, however, he is supporting Barack Obama for the Presidency. Click here to read why.
March 17, 2008 The Windsor Star
Pope Benedict XVI, formerly known as Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, is beginning to encourage open-minded dialogue about matters of faith. In September, he’s scheduled to discuss Martin Luther with a group of Catholic and Protestant theologians, and, in an effort to promote dialogue between the two groups, will reportedly argue that Luther didn’t intend to split the church and was not a heretic.
March 14, 2008 Sojourners Magazine
Wesley Granberg, general secretary of the Reformed Church in America and committee member of the Global Christian Forum, says church history was made in November last year when 245 leaders of Christian denominations and organizations from 72 countries came together in Nairobi for the four-day Global Christian Forum conference. All parts of the global Christian family were officially represented, including Pentecostal, evangelical, Orthodox, Catholic, and historic Protestant churches, and, as pointed out by Granberg, this was an unprecedented historical event given the decades-old judgments and prejudices that have separated evangelicals from mainline churches, Pentecostals from Catholics, and Baptists from Orthodox churches. Read about this interesting get-together.
Rev. Jim Wallis searches for old-time justice
March 12, 2008 The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor celebrates Rev. Jim Wallis’ commitment to confronting moral issues like poverty, pointing out that it is the way that Wallis links spirituality with civic values that has won him an important interfaith following. Read about Rev. Jim Wallis’ moral activism.
March 13, 2008 The Washington Post
It was in 1951, after the communists took power in China, that Beijing broke ties with the Vatican. Now the Vatican and China’s high-ranking clergy are in the process of taking part in a “respectful and constructive” dialogue with Beijing authorities over the role of the Catholic church there, the Vatican said Thursday. Read more.
