Here's another initiative for Islam-Christian dialogue, promoted in Europe to respond to the letter "A common word" which exactly one year ago 138 Muslim sages and leaders sent to the heads of all the Christian Churches. Tomorrow, Cahavannes-de-Bogis, near Geneva, will host a meeting that will bring together, from 18 to 20 October, about fifty leaders of the Christian Churches and experts in Islam. The initiative is promoted by the World Church Council (Wcc) in cooperation with the World Evangelical Alliance and the Catholic Church. Guests will include experts in Islam from the member churches of Wcc and then Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformed, Methodists, Old Catholics. "The purpose of the meeting - states a release from Wcc - is to offer the Churches and the communities an opportunity to tell about the initiatives and theological resources that each Church has for dialogue with Islam". In addition, the meeting will try to "outline the key issues for a Christian theology in connection with Islam-Christian dialogue" and "develop, in the ecumenical area, a common Christian theological concept of dialogue with Islam". To achieve this goal, the meeting will be helped by the contributions and experiences made by the Churches in different regions of the world, especially in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. The main speaker will be the catholicos Aram I, head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
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