MUSLIM-CATHOLIC DECLARATION ON HUMAN FRATERNITY SIGNED AT ABU DHABI 4 FEBRUARY 2019 Cover Image

MUSLIMANSKO-KATOLIČKA DEKLARACIJA O LJUDSKOM BRATSVU PRIHVAĆENA U ABU DHABIJU 4. VELJAČE 2019.
MUSLIM-CATHOLIC DECLARATION ON HUMAN FRATERNITY SIGNED AT ABU DHABI 4 FEBRUARY 2019

Author(s): Mato Zovkić
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Islam studies, Conference Report, Sociology of Religion, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Katolički bogoslovni fakultet
Keywords: Global Conference of human fraternity; Muslim-Catholic Declaration; Abu Dhabi;

Summary/Abstract: Thanks to creative mediation of Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, grand imam of Al-Azhar, Cairo, Muslim government of United Arab Emirates invited Pope Francis to visit their country 3-5 February 2019 and participate in the Global Conference of human fraternity organized by the Muslim Council of Elders. The Conference was attended by 500 representatives of world religions. Shaik Al-Tayyeb and Pope Francis have signed on that occasion the Declaration on Human fraternity for world peace and living together. In presenting this declaration from the context of Catholics and Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina the author points out that Reis emeritus dr. Mustafa Ceric participated in the Conference and published its translation into Bosnian for his fellow Muslims in Preporod of 15 February 2019. He also gave a public lecture on it to professors and students of the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Sarajevo. Catholic media in Sarajevo have also published full text of the Declaration. This author puts the Declaration into the context of some previous gestures of Muslim scholars and the Holy See, like1985 speech of Pope Jon Paul II to Muslim audience at Casablanca stadium, 1998 Agreement between the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and Permanent Committee of al-Azhar for Dialogue with Monotheistic Religions, 2007 Open Letter of Muslim scholars to Christian leaders A Word between Us and You, 2014 Open Letter to self-proclaimed emir of ISIL, 2016 Marrakesh Declaration, 2017 Address of Pope Francis to Al-Azhar Peace Conference. In Abu Dhabi Declaration Muslim and Catholic signatories rely on shared faith in God and condemn “all those practices that are a threat of life such as genocide, acts of terrorism, forced displacement, human trafficking, abortion and euthanasia”.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 331-357
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Croatian