Muslim scholars due to meet Pope Benedict and Roman Catholic officials this week hope the Vatican will agree to joint crisis management plan to defuse tensions that flare up between Christianity and Islam.
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November 3rd, 2008
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November 3rd, 2008
While the attention of the world is on the United States presidential election tomorrow, the Vatican will be launching a ground breaking initiative on an issue no less momentous for global peace: the dialogue between Christianity and Islam.
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November 3rd, 2008
Stormont health committee chair praised MPs for preventing the extension of the British 1967 abortion legislation to Northern Ireland.
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November 3rd, 2008
An anti-blasphemy law in the Netherlands should be replaced by an anti-discrimination law due to concerns of religious favoritism, officials say.
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November 3rd, 2008
More than 2,000 people are expected to attend the official opening of a mosque in Bradford.
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November 2nd, 2008
London?s proposed ?mega-mosque? has been allowed to complete its application for planning permission, despite calls from one councillor to remove the ?illegal and irresponsible? mosque.
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November 2nd, 2008
Iraq's president on Sunday pledged nearly $900,000 to help Christian families who have fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul because of killings and threats.
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November 2nd, 2008
Plans by Oxford city council to ban the world Christmas from this year's festival celebrations are drawing rebukes from Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders for changing long-established British traditions.
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November 2nd, 2008
US scientists say they have reprogrammed human skin cells into ones with the same blank-slate properties as embryonic stem cells, a breakthrough that could aid in treating many diseases while sidestepping controversy.
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November 1st, 2008
A controversial anti-blasphemy law is being scrapped by the Dutch government. The move is remarkable as two of the current three members of the ruling coalition are Christian parties and they had originally wanted to maintain the ban.