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...Words: The Pope has had only nice things to say in Turkey about a religion that he'd bluntly questioned in September for being susceptible to violence. Benedict spoke repeatedly of friendship, respect and reconciliation, citing the common roots of the two religions in their ancestry in Abraham. Rather than again propose the new approach to relations between the two faiths he'd launched in his Regensburg speech, he quoted his predecessor Pope John Paul II, who said on his own trip to Turkey in 1979 that Christians and Muslims must "recognize and develop the spiritual bonds that unite...
...don’t have money. They don’t have power. They don’t have a voice,” said Kelly L. Lee ’07, who attended the protest.Ricardo Sanchez, a board member of the Charlesview Residents’ Organization, criticized Rabbi Abraham Halbfinger, chair of the Board of Directors, who told The Crimson last week that Charlesview residents “were very much in favor” of the land swap.“I find it disappointing that ‘people of the cloth’ are saying things...
...John Paul II's, the German Pope was sounding a lot like his predecessor. During Benedict's speech alongside Turkey's head of religious affairs Ali Bardakoglu, the Pope cited "mutual respect and esteem," "human and spiritual unity" and the common heritage of Islam and Christianity as ancestors of Abraham. In marked contrast to the nasty historical quote he'd cited in Regensburg, the Pope referred to a warm 11th century meeting of Pope Gregory VII and a Muslim prince. Still smarting from Regensburg, Bardakoglu told the Pope: "The so-called conviction that the sword is used to expand Islam...
...think the major item is the fact that there is 6.5 acres rather than five acres,” said Board Chair Rabbi Abraham Halbfinger, who leads one of the synagogues that administers Charlesview. “I think this has made a major change in the proposal and made us look at it a lot differently...
...participate. A successful candidate must receive at least 75 percent of the vote. Evan H. Jacobs ’08 and Anton S. Troianovski ’08 will lead the newspaper’s news board as associate managing editors. Marianne F. Kaletzky ’08 and Abraham J. Riesman ’08 will serve as chairs of the arts board. Jordan A. Comins ’09 and Lukas Toth ’09 will head the design board. Adam M. Guren ’08 and Drew M. Trombly ’08 will lead...