Articles : Interfaith relations
Oct. 16, 2006 issue
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Photo by Dan Jantzi/MCC
Quake prompts cooperation with Indonesian Muslims
JAVA, Indonesia — Four months after an earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Java, Indonesian Mennonites and Muslims are rebuilding homes and forging new relationships across religious lines.
The May 27 earthquake claimed more than 6,200 lives and destroyed tens of thousands of homes in Java, Indonesia’s most populous island.
Sept. 25, 2006 issue
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Faith as the solution, not the problem
Acorollary of the five-year-old “war on terror” has been what some have called a “clash of civilizations,” but which also could be termed a clash of distorted religions. The representation of Western Christianity as a faith of gleaming, imperialist triumphalism has posed unavoidable conflicts with the image of steel and desert fury often carried by Middle Eastern Islam.
May 15, 2006 issue
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Faiths’ dialogue draws crowd in Kosovo
PRISHTINA, Kosovo — For the first time since Kosovo gained its independence seven years ago, Muslim and Christian leaders gathered April 17 for a public forum on religion — a contributor to the ethnic strife that has violently polarized the country.
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Two faiths, two views of peace
MINNEAPOLIS — Different views on the true source of peace surfaced when a Mennonite missions consultant and a Muslim spiritual leader took part in a public dialogue on their faiths.
March 6, 2006 issue
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Response to Muslim masses key to peace
The headlines tell only part of the story: a venerated mosque decapitated in the Iraqi city of Samarra, Muslims and Christians fighting in Nigeria, raids on Christians in Egypt.
Feb. 20, 2006 issue
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Distorted faith, divided world
Which is the greater affront to Islam, a defamatory drawing of Muhammad or zealots murdering innocents in the prophet’s name? The answer seems obvious. And yet it was cartoons, not killings, that ignited the wrath of mobs from Indonesia to the West Bank this month.
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Former Maoist revolutionary becomes a minister of peace in the Philippines
RICHMOND, B.C. — Dann Pantoja, a former Maoist revolutionary in the Philippines, thanks a driving offense for getting him on track with the gospel of peace.
June 27, 2005 issue
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Talks with Muslims point way to peace
MINDANAO, Philippines — When a group of Mennonites visited a Muslim leader in Marawi City recently, he told them he had been banned from many mosques after he initiated dialogue with Christians.
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