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Agenzia Fides: Organo di informazione delle Pontificie Opere Missionarie dal 1927

But there are exceptions and we've seen an extraordinary example just in the last week. the anti-defamation league, one of the important organizations battling prejudice and discrimination has repudiated one of the noxious decisions it's ever made in its long history. in a piece, jonathan greenblatt, the ceo and director of the adl, talked about its position in the mosque. for those who don't recall, this was a proposed institution modelled after the jewish community center in manhattan with the goal of promoting interfaith dialogue and interreligious harmony. it was to be led by the cordoba h...

ASIA/PAKISTAN - Reconciliation between Muslim and Christian hospital staff PAKISTAN 2021-05-12 Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace and reconciliation are always possible. Blessed are the peacemakers. We thank God that the tensions between the Christian and Muslim staff of the Punjab Mental Health Institute have become less frequent and peace, harmony and mutual respect have returned. Muslim and Christian nurses, doctors, along with paramedical staff, offered the common prayer of thanksgiving to end the week-long tensions among the hospital staff". This is what Fr. James Channan OP, ...

ASIA/PAKISTAN - Call of Catholics for the independence of the Commission for Minorities from the government PAKISTAN 2021-03-25 Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - “The working style of the National Commission for Minorities has so far been unsatisfactory. The themes of the meetings have not been made public so far and there are members of the Committee who are not official. Furthermore, the Commission is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interreligious Harmony, and thus lacks the necessary independence", says Kashif Aslam, Deputy Director of Projects of th...