The Joint Committee, which is composed of a delegation from the Anglican Communion and from Al Azhar Al Sharif held its seventh annual meeting in Cairo on 18-19 November 2008 corresponding to 20-21 Dhu Al-Qa'da 1429.
04 December 2008
At a press conference today, The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and His Excellency Dr Ali Gomaa, presented the communiqué from ‘A Common Word’ conference, a meeting of leading Muslim and Christian clerics and scholars.
05 October 2008
Controversy has raged in the English press over what the media and some church members thought the Archbishop of Canterbury had said in a foundation lecture at the Royal Courts of Justice.
12 February 2008
Thursday 7th February sees the launch of Generous Love: the truth of the Gospel and the call to dialogue
07 February 2008
NIFCON has added six books and two lectures that were published in the last quarter of 2007 to the Resources section and details of a conference coming up later this month (see Events).
14 January 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has given a wide-ranging lecture today in Singapore, at the Building Bridges Conference. In his lecture Dr Williams discusses the position of the "absolute truths" of faith over and above political power, and how this plays out in a society where several faiths co-exist.
06 December 2007
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is to convene the 6th Building bridges Christian Muslim Seminar in Singapore next week.
05 December 2007
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is to make a brief visit to Israel this week to meet with the Chief Rabbis of Israel. Archbishop Williams will meet with Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
30 October 2007
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, today received a copy of a key letter from Muslim scholars and religious leaders addressed to Christian religious leaders. Dr Anas S. Al-Shaikh-Ali, Chair of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, and one of the signatories to the letter, presented it to the Archbishop at Lambeth Palace.
11 October 2007
The Joint Committee, which is composed of a delegation from the Anglican Communion and from the Permanent Committee of al-Azhar al-Sharif for Dialogue with the Monotheistic Religions, held its sixth annual meeting in London on 2-3 September 2007 which corresponds to 21-22 Sha'aban 1428.
07 September 2007