Category Archives: Shalom

When I use the two words as title I am actually referring to the dialogue between a Christian (Catholic or Protestant) and a Non-Christian (Hindu/Buddhist). This is a dialogue where the partners are sharing an aspect of their faith life like prayer, worship meditation, pilgrimage,...

Conversion or change of religion is not the aim of an authentic interreligious dialogue. In the Primer on Interreligious Dialogue consisting of proposals from the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Section A, Question 5, page 3, which I prepared for our archdiocese, we read this Question...

Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue (EIRD) started in the year 1992. Although every year since the 1960s of post-Vatican II the World Council of Churches (mainline Protestants) and the Pontifical Council on Ecumenism were already celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, WPU, (January 18-25),...