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February 15, 2009

DICID Staff Participated in British Council Project

Head of Public Relations, Mr. Hamde Blackic, attended a three-day Global Changemakers' meeting in Qatar in February as a representative of Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue. Global Changemakers is a project managed by the British Council in Switzerland and its patron is Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister.
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February 5, 2009

Catholics, Muslims Begin to Value How Much They Share Across Faiths



WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In the days following the Sept. 11 attacks, Dalila Benameur and her Muslim friends in Bridgeview, Ill., were afraid to leave their homes even when their pantries ran low and their refrigerators emptied. The women felt threatened by the handful of intimidating drivers who would cruise past the town's mosque waving Confederate flags and shouting anti-Muslim epithets.
That's when Andreatte Brachman and her friends from St. Fabian Catholic Church stepped in.
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January 31, 2009

Catholics, Muslims Seek Common Ground at Vatican

Clerics of the world’s two largest faiths are meeting at the Vatican this week to improve relations between the long-divided communities.
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