Two months after a galaxy of Muslim scholars and luminaries sent a letter to all Christian religious leaders worldwide, Roman Catholic cardinals say the Vatican will have a positive response in the near future.

“The Vatican will respond positively, and quite soon,” Dakar Cardinal Theodore-Adrien Sarr was reported as saying on November 25, during a ceremony to install 23 new members of the College of Cardinals. “We will not miss this opportunity.”

Depending on vast financial resources and creditworthiness, American giant churches are offering local communities a wide array of services ranging from residential compounds and sports villages to limousine services, not to gain profit but to convert people of other faiths, The New York Times reported on November 23.

“We want to turn people on to Jesus Christ through this process,” said Pastor Karl Clauson of the ChangePoint ministry church.

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Another glorious page of Islam’s history in the Czech Republic has been turned with the 90th birthday of one of the bedrocks of the Muslim faith in the central European country, Mohammed Ali Shilhavy, reports IslamOnline.net.

“For Czech Muslims, Shilhavy is like a bridge linking between two different eras,” Munib Al-Rawi, the head of the Islamic Waqf Authority, said on November 24.

“He has taken the responsibility of documenting the M...

Bringing 50,000 Muslims from around the world, the third Global Unity and Peace (GUP) conference opened in the British capital London on November 24, with a focus on correcting stereotypes on Islam and British Muslims. “The Global Unity and Peace is an opportunity to present a true image of British Muslims amid a torrent of negative media reports,” GUP director Mohamed Ali said.

“When Islamophobia is on the upswing in Britain, such meetings are of vital importa...