Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue

March 26, 2009

Annual Meeting between Vatican and Al-Azhar Held in Rome

The Joint Committee for Dialogue, established in 1998, held its annual meeting in Rome on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 February 2009; it was jointly presided over by His Eminence Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and by Prof. Sheikh Ali Abd al-Baqi Shahata, Secretary General of the Academy for Islamic Research of al-Azhar, Cairo, Egypt.

DICID Welcomes French Ambassador and Comité Colbert President

Yesterday Dr. Yusuf Al-Siddiqi, the executive director of DICID received HE Mr. Gilles Bonnaud, French Ambassador to Qatar. The ambassador was accompanied by Mrs. Elisabeth Ponsolle des Portes, president of Comité Colbert.

DICID Staff Participated in British Council Project

Head of Public Relations, Mr. Hamde Blackic, attended a three-day Global Changemakers' meeting in Qatar in February as a representative of Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue. Global Changemakers is a project managed by the British Council in Switzerland and its patron is Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister.

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Annual Meeting between Vatican and Al-Azhar Held in Rome

DICID Welcomes French Ambassador and Comité Colbert President

DICID Staff Participated in British Council Project