Father Dave (L), Father Toufic, Soren Smith

Father Toufic of Maaloula shows us how Christians and Muslims can live together in harmony

Father Toufic, in my view,  is an archetypal priest. As Parish Priest of St George’s Melkite church in Maaloula (Syria), he has pastored his parish through the worst possible crisis.  Jabhat Al Nusra over-ran his town in 2013. Three years later, the signs of destruction are ever-present. St George’s church has been rebuilt but, as Father Toufic says, […]

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Christians and Muslims can be friends – Father Dave & the Grand Mufti of Syria

He is one of my favourite people in the world, and I pray for him every day – Dr Ahmad Badr al-Din Hassoun, the Grand Mufti of Syria. I don’t know any other religious leader in the world whose first words to me when he sees me are “I love you!” Even I don’t greet

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Father Dave with Feruzan Behbahany

Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God?

I hear this question asked a lot – not only by Christians but by Muslim friends as well: “Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God?” The question made headlines late in 2015 when Wheaton College in Chicago suspended a professor of political science for publicly answering the question in the affirmative! The academic was

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Christians and Muslims in fellowship at the Arrahman Mosque in Kingsgrove (Sydney)

Christian evangelism doesn’t mean turning Muslims into Christians!

The article reprinted in part below is one that should be read by every Christian who believes in evangelizing the Muslim world.  Evangelical church-leader and scholar, Nabeeh Abbassi, is evidently a great believer in evangelism. Even so, he does not believe that this is a matter of turning Muslims into Christians. Abbassi makes a distinction between religious affiliation

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