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26 May 2011 – The Vatican officials
in charge of dialogue with Muslims met with Egypt’s
foreign minister and expressed the Catholic Church’s
readiness to continue dialogue with scholars from Egypt’s
premier Muslim institution, the Vatican said. Read more...
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26 May 2011 – U.S. President Barack
Obama’s call for Israeli and Palestinian states based on
Israel’s 1967 borders met with a largely wary response
from Palestinian Christians. Read more...
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26 May 2011 – U.S. President Barack
Obama's two recent speeches on the Mideast showed
“some progress,” but they were “not sufficient,” said
Bishop William Shomali, chancellor of the Latin
Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Read more...
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26 May 2011 – In Jifna, a priest tries to overcome wounds left by two Palestinian uprisings. Read more...
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26 May 2011 – Pope Benedict XVI
confirmed the election of the new head of India’s Syro–Malabar Catholic Church. Read more...
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26 May 2011 – An interfaith group of
religious leaders, including two Catholic prelates, called
for “strong, sustained” U.S. leadership in peace talks
between Israel and Palestine “before it is too late.” Read more...
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24 May 2011 – Pope Benedict XVI has
named Msgr. Mikael Mouradian, who is superior of the
Convent of Notre Dame in Bzommar, Lebanon, as the new
bishop of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in New York
for Armenian Catholics. Read more...
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24 May 2011 – As dusk fell on this
sleepy West Bank village, Father Firas Aridah looked
down from the balcony of his office onto the church
courtyard, where a group of young boys — and one girl —
were in the midst of a heated soccer match. Read more...
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