PARIS (Reuters) – The World Council of Churches, which groups the main non-Catholic Christian churches, urged its members on Wednesday to open a dialogue with Muslim scholars seeking inter-faith cooperation to promote justice and peace.
The Geneva-based WCC said it wanted to organize discussions on theology and ethics with signatories of A Common Word, a call for Christian-Muslim dialogue issued by 138 Islamic scholars last October and welcomed by many Christian churches.
The WCC statement came a day after Saudi media reported that King Abdullah had called for a Muslim consensus on a dialogue with Christianity and Judaism to end inter-faith tension.
The World Council of Churches Urges Dialogue…
March 31, 2008 · 2 Comments
Categories: A Common Word · Christian-Muslim relations · Interfaith · The Church
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abu daoud // March 31, 2008 at 1:27 pm |
But for better or worse the influence of the WCC is certainly on the wane, having been taken over largely by liberal Protestants.
Shaw // March 31, 2008 at 1:31 pm |
indeed.