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Kleine Zeitung Von Ingo Hasewend November 17, 2019 Dass mit Franziskus der erste Papst die arabische Halbinsel besuchte, war eine Sensation. Ebenso die Annäherung der Golfstaaten an Israel. Dahinter steht auch ein Rabbi mit Familienwurzeln in Wien: Marc Schneier Als Papst Franziskus im Februar die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate besuchte, wurde dies als Sensation gefeiert. Erstmals setzte ein Pontifex seinen Fuß auf die arabische Halbinsel und damit auf Mutterboden der heiligsten Stätten des Islams....

The Gulf Times November 10, 2019 SALT LAKE CITY — Monday I greeted His Excellency Dr. Mohammad Al-Issa of Saudi Arabia as he came to sit before the Deseret News editorial board. This Muslim leader is secretary-general of the Muslim World League and was in Utah to meet with leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as Utah government officials. His message was impressive . He spoke of the need to gain mutual understanding and meaningful cooperation across religions and countries....

Deseret News By Doug Wilks November 9, 2019 SALT LAKE CITY — Monday I greeted His Excellency Dr. Mohammad Al-Issa of Saudi Arabia as he came to sit before the Deseret News editorial board. This Muslim leader is secretary-general of the Muslim World League and was in Utah to meet with leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as Utah government officials. His message was impressive. He spoke of the need to gain mutual understanding and meaningful cooperation across religions...

Newsweek By Hunter Moyler November 5, 2019 Muslim and Evangelical Christian students convened at a conference at Wheaton College over the weekend to explore what they could do to ameliorate relations between their two religious groups, a situation the event’s organizers called “the greatest interreligious challenge of our time.” The conference, which took place on November 1-2 was arranged by Neighborly Faith, an organization that bills itself as “a nationwide movement bringing...

Black Christian News November 2, 2019 The grainy footage is unmistakable. The interpretation isn’t. And the implications could reverberate from Moscow to Tehran to Tel Aviv. Dozens of men with sledgehammers pound slabs of stone in an otherwise empty mountainous field. Filmed in 2005 by the prelate of northern Iran’s Armenian church, Bishop Nshan Topouzian, the clip purports to show the destruction of khachkars, ornately carved headstones from a Christian graveyard, some dating back to the 6th century. The...

OneNewsNow By Steve Jordahl November 1, 2019 A Christian apologist and author says a weekend conference designed to promote dialogue between followers of Muhammad and followers of Jesus Christ should have a single focus: the life, death, resurrection, and saving grace of Christ. Hundreds of students are meeting on the campus of Wheaton College near Chicago this weekend to advance an evangelical dialogue with Muslims. Organizers of the Neighborly Faith Conference expect about 350 students and staff...

According to the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, ‘Evangelical Christian and Muslim relations is the greatest interreligious challenge in America today.’”

Thousands of Muslims and Jews are preparing to hold another Season of Twinning programme, headed by the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, an organisation specialising in Muslim-Jewish relations, in coordination with Saudi Arabia’s Mecca-based Muslim World League.

5 Towns Jewish Times October 29, 2019 As the first anniversary of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting approaches, the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) and the Muslim World League announced a historic partnership for an innovative Season of Twinning program that will bring together rabbis and imams and their synagogues and mosques. For a decade, the FFEU’s Season of Twinning has brought together thousands of Muslims and Jews in an effort to create more opportunities for interfaith dialogue....

New Age Islam October 25, 2019 FOUNDATION FOR ETHNIC UNDERSTANDING & MUSLIM WORLD LEAGUE JOIN TOGETHER FOR SEASON OF TWINNING PROGRAM NEW YORK – As the first anniversary of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting approaches, The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) and the Muslim World League announced an historic partnership for an innovative Season of Twinning program that will bring together rabbis and imams and their synagogues and mosques. For a decade, the FFEU’s Season of Twinning has...