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Want to help Middle East Christians?

Reach out to U.S. Muslims by John L Allen Jr on Oct. 17, 2010 Rome. Created by mandate of Pope Pius XI in 1926, the Catholic Near East Welfare Association is probably the most important vehicle in the United States for supporting the Christians of the Middle East, as well as Eastern Catholic churches in Northern [...]

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Christian and Muslims

In the news over the past week we are struck with the very poignant scenes of Christian cursing Muslim and Muslim cursing Christian at a time when the nation remembers the extraordinary events of 9-11. But have we forgotten we are all brothers and sisters in faith? Abraham’s God is the God of Christian, Jew, [...]

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Vatican council calls planned Koran burning ceremony ‘outrageous’

Vatican City, Sep 8, 2010 / 10:29 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Although the charismatic Christian church planning a Koran burning on Sept. 11 only has around 50 members, the spectre of the impact on Muslim relations led the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue to issue a statement today expressing its “great concern” over the plan [...]

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US Catholic Leaders condemn planned Koran burning

CNA STAFF, Sep 8, 2010 / 05:47 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The retired Cardinal Archbishop of Washington, D.C., Theodore McCarrick, and the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights’ president Bill Donohue, have added their voices in opposition to a Florida pastor’s plan to burn the Koran publicly on September 11, 2010. Both men agree that [...]

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