A forum promoting better understanding between Christians and Muslims is due to be launched by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams.

The Church of Ireland Gazette has given its backing to the development of inter-faith relations, following controversy arising from the visit of the Dalai Lama to St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast last November.

NEW YORK — The prestigious Jewish Theological Seminary has sponsored dialogues with all sorts of American religious and ethnic groups over the past 67 years, but never with evangelical Protestants — until last week.

Discussion of novels, movies focus of clergy

ROME, April 12 -- After two decades of contact and dialogue with the Islamic world under Pope John Paul II, the Vatican is rethinking an outreach program that critics say is diluting Catholicism and has brought almost no benefits to beleaguered Catholic minorities in Muslim countries.

BRUSSELS - A few minutes before Europe observed three minutes of silence last Wednesday in memory of the tsunami victims, Jewish and Muslim clergy who had convened at Egmont Palace decided to join them. Two days earlier, the clergy had come together to seek means of greater involvement for religion in quietening the bloody Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Imams and rabbis from across the world will gather in Brussels today in an unprecedented effort to quell the rising tensions between Muslims and Jews in Europe

Thousands gathered in the historic Mormon Tabernacle on November 14, 2004 to hear Dr. Ravi Zacharias, the world renowned defender of the Christian faith, speak on Jesus as the way, the truth, and the life. However, the powerful talk by Dr. Zacharias has been virtually lost in the shuffle due to remarks made prior to his taking the pulpit. Dr. Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Seminary in California was asked to give a few words and in doing so made 'an apology' that also contained several accusations against the evangelical community.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--Evangelical Christian leaders and experts on Mormonism have expressed dismay at recent comments made by Fuller Theological Seminary President Richard Mouw at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' "signature pulpit" in Salt Lake City.

If Wednesday night's packed meeting is any indication, there is a groundswell of people who want to heal Salt Lake City's religious divide.

With Evangelicals and Latter-day Saints sitting together in the Salt Lake Tabernacle for an "Evening of Friendship," internationally renowned Christian philosopher Ravi Zacharias told them Sunday night that Jesus Christ's unique claim upon humanity is that he embodied truth and sacrificed himself for a world that often does not recognize him.

For the first time in 105 years, a preacher of another faith was at the pulpit of the Tabernacle on Temple Square on Sunday night, urging evangelical Christians and Mormons to turn to Jesus Christ.

Not once did Rob Davis think about breaking his commitment to his Muslim constituents. Despite his long workdays, the San Jose police chief never even had a drop of water during the daylight-hours fasts for the holy month of Ramadan, which ends today. Not even on a day that Davis started in Washington, D.C. -- when he began to abstain from food and drink before sunrise at 5:30 a.m., or 2:30 a.m. California time -- and ended well into the evening with meetings in San Jose. His mouth turned cottony as he became dehydrated, but the meetings prevented him from ending his fast until 7:30 p.m.

During the 11:15 a.m. Eucharist on Sunday, the newest staff member at central Denver's historic St. John's Episcopal Cathedral will be formally installed.

Scalpers, take note: Tickets for the hottest event this season are long gone, and people are getting desperate.

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