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Arutz Sheva Staff December 03, 2019 15:52 Rabbi Marc Schneier, founding/senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, NY, to lead delegation to Muslim nations. Rabbi Schneier with the President of Azerbaijan Rabbi Marc Schneier, founding/senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, NY and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU), will lead the first synagogue mission to Azerbaijan and Oman early next year. The eight-day trip will begin in Azerbaijan...

The New York Daily News By Marc Schneier, Sayyid Syeed and Bob Roberts November 27, 2019 As hundreds of millions of adherents of our three interconnected Abrahamic traditions — Judaism, Islam and Christianity — sit down at Thanksgiving dinner tables across America, many of us will devoutly give thanks for the presence in their lives of husbands and wives, children, members of their extended families and dear friends. Indeed, expressing our love for those to whom we are closest is an inspiring sentiment...

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.