Claudio Monge

Visiting professor Independant Scientific Committee

Born in Saluzzo (Italy) on 28 May 1968, living in Istanbul since the beginning 2004.President of URT (Union of Religious in Turkey) 2008-2011, member of CRME(Ecumenical Committee of CCEE and CEC for Islam in Europe) 2005-2010, Member ofDominican General Secretary for Interfaith Dialogue since 2001, Invited Professor ofTheology of Religions in Fribourg University (Switzerland) 2007-2014, and InvitedProfessor to Bologna Theological Faculty (Italy) since 2007. Visiting Professor at TorontoUniversity – Ontario – Canada, October 2013-February 2014. Visiting Professor at ThePontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sur (PUCRS) in Porto Alegre (Brazil) –November 2015.
Since April 2014 Consultant to the Pontifical Council for InterreligiousDialogue.

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Le pape Léon XIV présente l'encyclique Magnifica Humanitas, Salle du Synode, Vatican, 25 mai 2026

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Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas and the Pluriel working group on AI-assisted interreligious dialogue

  • Wael Saleh

Text by Wael Saleh, researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and member of the Pluriel coordination committee. The simultaneous appearance of Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Human...

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The Recognition of a Hummingbird. Essays on Interreligious Dialogue and Missionary Work (2007-2025)

  • Rémi Caucanas

Published in May 2026 by PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome), this collection brings together the essays of Rémi Caucanas on interreligious dialogue and missionary wor...

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From Lavigerie to PISAI: The Institutional History of the Missionaries of Africa’s Engagement with Islam

Delivered on 21 May 2026 at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome, this lecture opens the series of conferences marking the institute's centenary (1926-2026). Fr. ...

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For a Christian Theology of Religions

  • Michel Younès

Faced with contemporary religious diversity, how can Christian theology make sense of the place that other religions occupy in God’s design? Michel Younès examines the three traditional ̶...

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Intercultural Theology

  • Jean Patrick Nkolo Fanga

Because every theology is culturally situated, Christian theology is inevitably multicultural. Yet one step remains to be taken: to become intercultural. Crossing languages, contexts, origins, ages...

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Bells and Muezzin in Harmony: Dialogue with Islam as a Spiritual Responsibility

  • Timo Güzelmansur

Article by Timo Güzelmansur published under the title Glocken und Muezzin im Einklang. Der Dialog mit dem Islam als geistliche Verantwortung in Herder Korrespondenz (special issue devoted to Pope L...

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Maurice Borrmans and the Crisis of Christian-Muslim Dialogue. Islamic studies in Question?

  • Florence Javel

In 2025-2026, we mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and of the declaration Nostra aetate (28 October 1965). One century earlier, in October 1925, Maurice Borrmans was born ...

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Opening address of the Cordoba congress

  • Michel Younès

On Tuesday 10 February 2026 in Cordoba, Michel Younès, general coordinator of Pluriel and dean of the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy), delivered the opening address of...