Pope Francis sends a letter to the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, spiritual leader of Iraqi Shiites in which he recalls their fruitful meeting two years ago during the papal visit to Iraq and encourages him to promote fraternity among believers as a concrete response to...
Read More »From Najaf to Qom: The Requirements for the Expansion of Shīʿah Islāmic Relations with the Christian World
Unfortunately, the Shīʿah Islāmic sect, unlike the non-Shīʿah sects, does not have effective and deep relations with Christianity, especially with the Vatican....
Read More »Head of Iranian Seminaries Meets Pope, Conveys Ayatollah Khamenei’s Message
Head of the Iranian Islamic seminaries, Ayatollah Alireza Arafi met with Pope Francis in the Vatican and conveyed an oral message of the...
Read More »Ayatollah Makarem’s Letter to Ayatollah Aʻrafi before Meeting with the Pope
Propose that a committee, consisting of the representatives of major credible religions be established in order to hold annual meetings and draw up sound and....
Read More »Cultural Relations between Christianity and Shia Islam
The history of the Shi`ah and Christian cultural relations is comparatively old. Of these relations may be mentioned inter-religious dialogue in the area of Kalam that took place in a spirit of complete mutual...
Read More »New Published: The Pope Meets the Ayatollah: An Introduction to Shi’a Islam
With a foreword by Ayatollah Sayyid Muneer al-Khabbaz, a leading professor in the Islamic Seminary and a student of Grand Ayatollah Sistani, this original work provides a comprehensive background to this...
Read More »Najaf Historic Meeting in Media: A Strong Sign for Interfaith Dialogue and Coexistence
Over the past few days, the media around the world has focused on this meeting from different perspectives. To tell a single story, they all focused on the recent meeting as a...
Read More »An Interview with Professor Knut S.Vikor on Interfaith Dialogue
Dialogue parties must inform society about what they learn of commonalities and the nature of differences between the religions, so that society moves away from fear and misunderstanding to an increased knowledge that...
Read More »It Is only Islam that Has a Political Theology of Co-Existence with Non-Muslims
Of all the religions that I have studied it is only Islam that has a political theology of co-existence with those who are non-Muslims, said Abdulaziz Sachedina in...
Read More »Shi‘a Muslims and the World Council of Churches
The director of the Islam Centre of England, Dr Mohammad Ali Shomali, explains, in this writing, the background to Shi‘a Muslim relations with the...
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