Visit of Qatar Us military Chaplain
8 November 2016
Visit of Qatar Us military Chaplain
The Qatar Us military chaplain Collin S.Grossruck , Comman Chaplain , on Tuesday 8 November 2016, and met Dr. Ibrahim Annaimi, Chairman of DICID.
Dr Ibrahim welcomed the guest and presented the DICID’s activities, which include: the Doha annual International interfaith Conference, the Roundtables discussions , the various publications, including, the scholarly interfaith magazine “ Adyan”, as well as other activities.
Dr. Ibrahim has mentioned the cooperation of DICID with churches in Qatar in particular , through Roundtable discussions that are targeting the local communities, In this point, Dr. Ibrahim suggest the chaplain to attend these meetings or other DICID activities, as well as the implementation of some joint programs.
From his side the chaplain said very happy of this visit to DICID, and hope to set up a sustained cooperation between the DICID and the Us base chaplain.
He explain that they open Arabic class, for those who want to learn language to communicate and know more about Islamic and Arab traditions. In this regard, the chaplain suggested studying the possibility of cooperation between the two sides, in common interest fields. He also asked about the possibility of obtaining books in English about Islam. He informed about the holding in United States of a conference on “ Countering the religious terrorism”, wondering if Qatar will represented in that event.
From his side, Dr. Ibrahim promised to start as soon as possible, a fruitful cooperation between DICID and Us base Chaplain, to strengthen the interfaith cooperation, and concluded that the DICID is ready share with them their experience and knowledge to improve understanding of each other for building a constructive partnership.