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1.	Nigeria: Religion and political reforms
	Author: Femi Falana	Date Written: 21 June 2010
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: This Day
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL:
	Key Words: Nigeria, Christian Association of Nigeria, Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, guidelines
	Summary & Comment: Find here a call to Christian and Muslim politicians by Femi Falana in This Day. "Since most politicians in Nigeria subscribe to the Islamic or Christian religion, it should be possible for the Christian Association of Nigeria and the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs to draw up ethical guidelines for Christian and Muslim politicians. Those w . . . [expand]
2.	Cyprus: Pope Benedict XVI meets Grand Sufi
	Author: Rachel Donadio	Date Written: 5 June 2010
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: CSN blog
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://cnsblog.wordpress.com
	Key Words: Cyprus, Pope, Grand Sufi, Nicosia, Sufi Sheik,
	Summary & Comment: The meeting of Pope Benedict XVI with the Grand Sufi sheik of a Muslim spiritual movement in Cyprus is an event of great portent because it has been welcomed by the Muslim world as a further gesture of the Pope’s opening towards the Muslim faith. For the Sufi confraternity it is a de facto, official consecration of a genuine muslim brotherhood whos . . . [expand]
3.	Edinburgh 2010 - Quest for Christian unity
	Author: Peter Kenny, Edinburgh; WCC staff	Date Written: 5 June 2010
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: Ecumenical News International, WCC report,
	Secondary Category: Africas Image: Africa in the Media	Source URL: http://www.eni.ch/rss; http://www.edinburgh2010.or rg,
	Key Words: WCC, Edinburgh, Pontifical Council, evangelism, mission, unity,
	Summary & Comment: Since Christianity began, there has never been a time when Christians have not struggled to live out God’s mission for all. The same is true of ecumenism’s quest for unity. While tensions between various expressions of Christianity remain, it is possible for diverse Christian groups to come together as stakeholders in an event like Edinburgh 2010. . . . [expand]
4.	Religion must have prophetic role - WCC
	Author: Judith Sudilovsky, Jerusalem	Date Written: 4 June 2010
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: Ecumenical News International
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://www.ipcri.org
	Key Words: Middle East, Gaza, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Religion, peacemaking,
	Summary & Comment: In light of the deteriorating situation in the Middle East a meeting of faith leaders organized by the Israel/Palestine Center for Research called on them to assume a more positive and active role in making peace. Religious leaders, they agreed, must bring their followers back to the basic tenets of their particular religion; namely, love for God a . . . [expand]
5.	Primacy of solidarity
	Author: Fr. Leonard Namuhumba	Date Written: 1 June 2010
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: New People, No 126 May/June 2010
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL:
	Key Words: African spirituality, globalisation, way of life, Supreme Being
	Summary & Comment: God, the master of the market, has entrusted its creation to man. The world's tenants bent on the pursuit of increasing production, consumption, and profit within the capitalist system have put limits to globalisation. They tend to worship the "golden calf". African Spirituality sees God everywhere as a support for all creation - ear . . . [expand]
6.	Malawi: Protest over jailing of 2 gay men
	Author: 1. Munyaradzi Makoni, Cape Town / 2. Staff	Date Written: 26 May 2010
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: ENI-10-0353 / Ekklesia
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://1. http://www.eni... 2. http://campaign...
	Key Words: Malawi, Southern Africa, rights, gay, lesbian,
	Summary & Comment: A protest movement is mounting over the recent jailing of two gay Malawians. Although on cultural or religious grounds many find it difficult to accept homosexuality, the acts are no longer considered as a criminal offence in most secular countries. The Malawi judges based their decision on the code devised by the Colonial power; nonetheless, since . . . [expand]
7.	Nigeria: Work for peace and foster development and justice
	Author: Gbenga Osinaike, Abuja	Date Written: 26 May 2010
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: Church Times of Lagos
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://www.oikoumene.org/
	Key Words: Nigeria, religious conflict, NIREC, AACC, WCC,
	Summary & Comment: The crisis in in Nigeria’s Central Plateau State is of a social and economic nature rather than a religious conflict. Grassroots people there don’t have problems living together. Yet the imams and pastors who lead them sometimes send wrong signals that pit one group against another. The church delegation advocates government action to develop the a . . . [expand]