Catholic-Muslim forum condemns terrorism, calls for deeper understanding
November 13, 2014
A Catholic-Muslim forum, meeting this week at the Vatican, concluded with a statement calling for a “culture of inter-religious dialogue for deepening mutual understanding.”
The joint statement strongly condemned terrorism, religious persecution, and attacks of religious shrines. “It is never acceptable to use religion to justify such acts or to conflate such acts with religion,” the participants agreed.
The forum called for education aimed at building religious tolerance, saying that “school curricula and textbooks should portray an objective and respectful image of the other.”
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, chaired the Vatican delegation at the 3-day conference. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad of Jordan was scheduled to lead the Muslim delegation, but was unable to participate because of health problems. He was replaced as leader of the Islamic delegation by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a professor at George Washington University.
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