Newsletter – February 2017
Dear Friends, Last February 22nd and 23rd the IDEO had the pleasure of being part of the official resumption of the dialogue between al-Azhar and the Vatican which had been interrupted since 2006. Even though informal meetings never ceased, it was the first time that the two important delegations met in an official capacity. The […]
Newsletter — January 2017
Dear friends, January 2017 has been a very busy month at the IDEO. Several new projects were started which are very promising. I’ll leave it to you to discover them below, and we thank you once again for your support and encouragement! February also looks like it will be a busy month, especially with the […]
Newsletter ‒ December 2016
Dear friends, Sirte, Mosul, Homs, Madagali, Aden, Istanbul, Mogadishu, Cairo, Kamuya, Berlin, al-Bab… Each time blind violence hits an innocent crowd, the whole of humanity is hit. And when this violence pretends to act in the name of God, whole believers are humiliated in turn. What is there that lies in humans that generates all […]
Newsletter — November 2016
Dear friends, Some have reacted to our previous newsletter, finding it very elitist and not very down-to-earth. November was full of all kinds of down-to-earth activities, which are always beautiful and instructive, activities which sent us back to our books and our scholarly studies. Our life here is like a round-trip! Thank you for following […]
Newsletter – October 2016
Dear friends, Study, the serious search for the truth, the attentive hearing of the contradictory positions, takes infinitely more time than hate polemics. When everything is complex, we attempt to lump everything together in a block rather than trying to enter into the complexity of things. To this day, we have not found a better […]
Newsletter ‒ September 2016
Dear friends, During the month of September, many brothers have joined our community. Brother Amir Jajé, OP (Iraq) has a Ph. D. in Islamic studies and is a specialist of Shiism. Brothers Luke Barder, OP (United States), Paul Akpomie, OP (Nigeria), Pierre-Marie Niang, OP (Senegal) and Taufiq Younis, OP (Pakistan) have all arrived for five […]
Newsletter — August 2016
Dear friends, Fr. René-Vincent participated in the IFLA congress (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) which was held in Colombus, Ohio (USA) from August 13‒19. Over the years, fr. René-Vincent and the IDEO library team worked to complete an enormous project to not only catalogue books and scientifics articles, but also to bring to […]
Newsletter – July 2016
Dear friends, we are excited to introduce to you our new website. The previous site was becoming old and we could not update it easily. This new site is designed to primarily highlight our activities and news, rather than our identity and values. Next to the fixed pages (“IDEO’s Members”, “Our History”, “The Library”, “The Scholars’ […]
Newsletter – June 2016
Dear friends, At the end of June, five members of IDEO participated in a symposium organized in Paris by the Catholic University on dialogue of religious and cultural rationales. The many discussions that we have in Cairo between Muslims and Christians sometimes stumble on the following point: how do we take seriously the rationale of […]