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1.	Nigeria: Church in Jos says religion alone not to blame for recent violence
	Author: (LM) Angenzia Fides	Date Written: 24 August 2010
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: (LM) Agenzia Fides 23/8/2010
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://www.fides.org/
	Key Words: Nigeria, Jos, violence, Religion, Muslims, trust, dialogue
	Summary & Comment: Episodes of violence in the Plateau State in the past months were at the heart of discussions at the 8th General Assembly of the Archdiocese of Jos. The cause of the violence is not the attempt by Muslims to encroach on the sacred space of what is seen as a Christian State but rather, are ethnic, social and political. It will take much work to rebu . . . [expand]
2.	Ghana: Churches to engage government and communities
	Author: George Amexo	Date Written: 20 August 2010
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: Public Agenda (Accra)
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://allafrica.com/
	Key Words: Ghana, Accra, Christian Council, Pentecostal Council, Advocacy Programme
	Summary & Comment: A programme has been initiated by a coalition composed of the Christian Council of Ghana and the Ghana Pentecostal Council to educate front line communities that will be affected by oil extraction activities. They hope to create awareness among leaders on social, moral, environmental and political life in Ghana and will also work with the communiti . . . [expand]
3.	Young Muslims, Jews ,and Christians become peace facilitators
	Author: WCC staff	Date Written: 29 July 2010
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: WCC media
	Secondary Category: Youth & Children	Source URL: http://www.wcc-coe.org
	Key Words: Geneva, Young, Muslims, Jews, Christians, peace facilitators
	Summary & Comment: Peace is a common value within Judaism, Islam, and Christianity; however, other religious values often become sources of conflict. To build community beyond faith boundaries a group of young adults from each of the three faith groups recently spent a week together. Young men from Africa attended the training; this is a portent of good news for the . . . [expand]
4.	Ghana: An International Academic Conference : The African Christian and Islam
	Author: Serge Moussa Traore, Accra	Date Written: 10 July 2010
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: Missionaries of Africa, Kigali
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL:
	Key Words: Ghana, Accra, Muslims in Africa, African Christian scholars of Islam
	Summary & Comment: From the 6th to 10th July, 2010, African-Christian scholars of Islam met in Accra to search together for an African-Christian approach to Islam. The conference was about critical, African-Christian reflections on Islam and a biblically and a theologically sound basis for engagement with Muslims in Africa. It was not about Christian-Muslim relations . . . [expand]
5.	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]
6.	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]
7.	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: 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]