07 November 2008

Muslim-RC relations

Important to note the events covered in this article: Muslim and Vatican leaders hold talks to ease religious tensions | World news | The Guardian What I found interesting was this, near the end. I have a great deal of sympathy: "Vatican insiders say the German pontiff is impatient with the polite but, as he sees it, ultimately unproductive exchanges between theologians of different faiths and, in the case of Islam, has specific issues he wants to see tackled urgently. Chief among these is what the Vatican terms 'reciprocity' - the freedom of Christians in the Muslim world to worship with the same ease as Muslims do in the west."

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