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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...
...people interested in making their own Goth-style clothes. Robert Blaque joined the group when he was learning to make corsets and costumes to wear onstage with his San Francisco-- based band, Secret Secret. Although Dark Threads is a virtual community, Blaque says, "there's a really neat friendship among the listees," some of whom meet up to go to fairs or participate in AIDS walks in the Bay Area...
...time, to make those in the minority feel welcome." Gearin and religious education co-ordinator Mary Musolino have initiated contact with Malek Fahd Islamic School in adjoining Greenacre. In the near future, both schools will work together to establish peace gardens on their respective grounds as a mark of friendship...
...Taking a cue from his predecessor, Benedict will try instead to speak with symbolic gestures. He has sought and received a last-minute invitation for a visit to the historic Blue Mosque in Istanbul on Thursday. Vatican officials are hoping the visit offers visible proof of the "respect and friendship" for the Turkish people - and Muslims around the world - that the Pope has spoken of repeatedly since his crash landing back in Rome after the notorious speech...
Stanislav Dmitrievsky Russian-Chechen Friendship Society Outraged by Russian policy in Chechnya, Dmitrievsky, 40, launched his society in Nizhni Novgorod in 2000 with the aim of helping victims of the war. He also started a regular newsletter, which once reprinted speeches by Chechen separatist leaders. A local court handed him a two-year suspended sentence in February on charges of inciting racial hatred, and the group was officially shut down in October. He's appealing the verdict to the Supreme Court. "They're trying to push us underground," he says, "but we'll keep working. We must keep telling society...