to 19/10/26 to 21/10/26

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Interreligious Dialogue “Assisted by” and “in Dialogue with” Artificial Intelligence: Concepts, Approaches and Challenges

From Monday 19 to Wednesday 21 October 2026, the Pluriel research group “Interreligious Dialogue Assisted by Artificial Intelligence” and TRENDS Global, together with the Université de Montréal ...

17/02/27

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“The Pride of the Demiurge and the Column of Light”: Two Gnostic-Manichaean Themes in Ismaili Shi’ism, by Daniel de Smet

As part of the “Theologies in Dialogue” chair (2026-2027 programme) at the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy), co-directed by Michel Younès and Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, Daniel de Smet, research...

01/09/26

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“Christianity, Islam, and Gnosis”

As part of its “Theologies in Dialogue” chair (2026-2027 programme), the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy) offers the seminar “Christianity, Islam, and Gnosis”, led by Michel Younès...

01/09/26

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“The World and Its Salvation”: Christian and Muslim approaches in dialogue

As part of its “Theologies in Dialogue” chair (2026-2027 programme), the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy) offers the course “The World and Its Salvation: Christian and Muslim approaches ...

to 11/12/26 to 12/12/26

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100 Years of PISAI: A Century Between Mission and Formation

On 11-12 December 2026, the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome hosts the international conference marking the centenary of PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies). Under the title &...

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In Memoriam: John L. Esposito (1940-2026)

The scholar of Islam John L. Esposito passed away on 15 July 2026 in Philadelphia, at the age of 86. A leading figure in the study of Islam and in the relationship between religion and international affairs...

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“Dialogue between Islam and Christianity”: Michel Younès in conversation with Chems-eddine Hafiz

On 4 July 2026, the Great Mosque of Paris released a new episode of “The Rector’s Podcast”: Chems-eddine Hafiz welcomes Michel Younès, General Coordinator of Pluriel and Dean of the Faculty of Theology at t...

30/05/26

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Marseille: ICM Inaugurates the Chair of Theology in Dialogue with Islam under the Patronage of Christian de Chergé

On Saturday 30 May 2026, the Catholic Institute of the Mediterranean (ICM, Marseille) inaugurated the Chair of Theology in Dialogue with Islam, placed under the patronage of Christian de Chergé. The opening...

22/06/26

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The dialogue between the Islam of the brotherhoods and Catholicism as a contribution to stability in Senegal, by Pierre-Marie Niang OP

The Kircher Network (Jesuit Higher Education in Europe and the Near East) is organising a webinar with Father Pierre-Marie Niang, a Senegalese Dominican, on the role of the dialogue between the Islam of the...

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Special issue “Islam and Interreligious Dialogue” in Laval théologique et philosophique

The journal Laval théologique et philosophique has just released, in its volume 82, issue 1 (2026), a special issue devoted to Islam and interreligious dialogue, coordinated by Guy-Raymond Sarkis (Saint Jos...

12/05/26

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World religions: understanding, dialogue, action (online webinar, May 12, 2026)

Webinar organized by the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions (ISTR) of the Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP) and Theologicum Online, on Tuesday May 12, 2026, from 6:30 to 7:30 PM (Paris time), o...

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Conference “New proposals in interreligious studies” (Lyon, 22 April 2026)

On Wednesday 22 April 2026, from 5 to 6 p.m., the Faculty of Theology at UCLy (Catholic University of Lyon) will host a session devoted to new proposals in interreligious studies. The meeting will feature t...

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Michel Younès: “Shedding academic light on societal issues is one of Pluriel’s core missions”

Interview. On the occasion of the publication of L’islam et les musulmans. Doctrines, écoles et tendances actuelles (Cerf, 2026), Michel Younès, Professor of Theology at the Université catholique de Lyon an...

to 08/06/26 to 09/06/26

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Conference “The Theology of Religions Reinventing and Transforming Itself” (Paris, 8–9 June 2026)

Faced with growing religious diversity and the transformations of the contemporary world, how should we rethink the theology of religions today? On 8 and 9 June 2026, the Faculty of Theology of the Institut...

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Christian–Muslim Dialogue in Focus: symposium of the Higher Education for Social Transformation research group in Innsbruck

Innsbruck, Austria. From October 29–31, 2024, the Faculty of Theology at the University of Innsbruck hosted the Kircher Network’s Higher Education for Social Transformation (HEST) workshop on Christia...

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100 Years of the PISAI: Call for Papers for the International Congress in Rome, 11–12 December 2026

Update (1 September 2026): the final programme of the conference has been published. PISAI, Rome. The year 2026 marks the centenary of the foundation of the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studi...

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Call for Papers: The Abu Dhabi Declaration and New Forms of Citizenship

Call for Papers. The Research Center on Religions, Law and Economies in the Mediterranean Area (REDESM) at the University of Insubria, in collaboration with the Pluriel network and the Anawati Chair at the ...

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Call for Papers — “Of Priests and Sufis: Revisiting Catholic Scholarship on Islamic Mysticism” (IDEO, Cairo, 6–7 June 2026)

International conference at the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO), Cairo, 6–7 June 2026, within the MSCA Horizon Europe project SEMENSUF – Seminal Sufism in Motion. Coordinated by the Catholic...

07/05/25

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Webinar. An Anglican Perspective on Interfaith Marriages in England

As part of the Kircher Online Lectures, a public webinar will be held on Tuesday, May 7th at 4 PM (Central European Time). Entitled “Intimate Diversity: An Anglican perspective on interfaith marriage ...

01/04/25

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The Abu Dhabi Declaration on Human Fraternity: A Counter-Model for Interreligious Dialogue?

Lyon, France. On Tuesday, April 1st 2025 at 6:30 PM, the Catholic University of Lyon welcomes Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco, Archbishop of Algiers, for a conference entitled “The Abu Dhabi Declaration on H...

14/02/25

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Marian devotion in Christianity and Islam

On Friday, February 14, 2025, from 10 AM to 6 PM, the Catholic Institute of Paris is hosting a study day dedicated to Mary, a figure shared between Christians and Muslims. In a world where interfaith dialog...

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Diego Sarrió Cucarella, member of Pluriel and specialist in Islamic-Christian dialogue, appointed bishop in Algeria

Saturday, January 25, 2025. Pope Francis has appointed Father Diego Ramón Sarrió Cucarella as the new bishop of the Diocese of Laghouat-Ghardaïa in Algeria on January 25, 2025. President of the Pontifical I...

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Three contributions by Laurent Basanese in Pro Dialogo 2024/3

The latest issue of Pro Dialogo, the annual journal of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue (Holy See), features three contributions signed Laurent Basanese, Head of Office at the Dicastery and profess...

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Relations with Islam: Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot has passed away

Official. Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, passed away on November 25, 2024, at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome at the age of 72, the Dicastery announce...

13/11/24

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Online seminar “Religions and prostitution. The voices of women”

Seminar presented and moderated by Alessandro Ferrari, University of Insubria, Wednesday 13 November 2024, 11 am, Sant’Abbondio Cloister (room S.2.6) in Como and via videoconference. Speakers GRAZIA V...

25/09/24

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Conference “Christian Thought, Muslim Thought, and Societal Issues” with Michel Younès and Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

Launch event for the “Theologies in Dialogue” chair on the theme “Christian thought, Muslim thought and societal issues” on Wednesday, September 25 at 6:30 PM at the Carnot campus of...

to 15/07/25 to 23/07/25

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Cairo: Registration Open for 2025 Summer School “Citizenship and Religious Pluralism”

As part of the Anawati Chair “Combating Religious Extremism through Interfaith Dialogue”, the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies in Cairo, in partnership with the University of Insubria (V...

30/06/24

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European Student Study Week on Islamic-Christian Relations “Bridging Intercultural Societies for Peace in Turbulent Times”

From June 30 to July 6, 2024 in Granada, Spain. Registration form: https://tinyurl.com/499znx4n Information : Maryam Ballout (assistanthest1.ki...

03/05/24

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Study day “The emergence of Islam in a Christian context” in Lyon

10/01/24

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Panel: 5 years of the “Document on the Fraternity of All People”: Opportunities, limits and perspectives for a religiously plural world

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Michel Younès: “An absolutist reading of the Koran sometimes reflects on the Christian way of understanding Muslims”.

26/10/23

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Christian Theological Engagement with Islam: a Study Day at PISAI

This hybrid event seeks to promote Christian theological reflection on Islam by offering opportunity for discussion of some of the many essays in this field recently published in the 2022 volume of PISAI’s ...

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Abu Dhabi Congress: cultural visits

Cultural visits are included in the congress programme. Al Ain Also called “The Spring” or the “Garden City” thanks to the oases that refresh it, Al Ain is the fourth largest city in...

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4-7 February 2024: “Islam and Fraternity” Congress in Abu Dhabi

The entire congress is simultaneously translated into French, English and Arabic.

27/10/23

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27 October 2023 at 3pm: “The challenges of universal fraternity” webinar

The webinar, designed as an introduction to the conference theme, can be accessed via Zoom with simultaneous translation in French, English and Arabic.

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Rome / Opening of the Forum of the Center for interreligious studies

The Centre for Interreligious Studies of the Pontifical Gregorian University, directed by Ambrogio Bongiovanni, is offering a programme of public lectures organised along two lines: Christianity and As...

to 02/02/24 to 06/02/24

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Islam & fraternity – 4th PLURIEL international congress

From February 2nd to 6th, in Abu Dhabi. In partnership with TRENDS Research and Advisory. The congress theme will be : Islam et fraternité : impact et perspectives du Document sur la fraternité humaine Intr...

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Photo report: exploring the Lebanese religious diversity

Muslim diversity, Christian diversity: the program of the PLURIEL congress in Beirut from May 23 to 28 included many meetings to discover the religious plurality of Lebanon. Raphaël Georgy/Pluriel

DEADLINE : 23/01/23

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Islam and Fraternity – Call for paper for the 4th PLURIEL congress

Scheduled to take place from 2 to 6 February 2024 in Abu Dhabi, in partnership with TRENDS Research and Advisory, PLURIEL’s 4th International Congress will focus on : Islam and fraternity: impact and ...

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Se Comprendre (1956-2013) available online

PISAI is pleased to announce the online publication of the complete collection of Se Comprendre, a bulletin launched by the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) in France in 1956. The bulletin had the ini...

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Andrea Mandonico awarded for his book on Charles de Foucauld

The book ““Mio Dio, come sei buono. La vita e il messaggio di Charles de Foucauld” by Father Andrea Mandonico wins the Ambassadors to the Holy See Literary Award 2021 This literary prize, born in 2019...

to 02/12/21 to 03/12/21

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International conference “Religion, State, and Law”

Les 2 et 3 décembre 2021, l’Université de Graz accueille le colloque international “Religion, État et droit : Défis nationaux, transnationaux et internationaux”. Il est organisée par la Fa...

DEADLINE : 01/11/21

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[Postponed] IFCU Symposium / Preparing for the COVID-19 World

Postponed to an unspecified date Symposium organized by the International federation of catholic Universities.–> Postponed to an unspecified date. The covid 19 pandemic has been a major crisis of w...

06/05/21

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REPLAY / The Visit of Pope Francis to Iraq : Its Significance for Religious Relations

Videoconference organised by the Berkeley Center for Religions, Peace and World Affairs, Georgetown University. May 6, from 12pm to 1.30pm EST (6pm to 7.30 pm Paris Time) Watch replay : https://berkleycente...

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Conversaciones transformadoras. Una metodología para el diálogo islamo-cristiano en el campo del pensamiento social religioso

Inaugural Speech of the Academic year at the Faculty of Theology of Granada, Spain

Interreligious Dialogue Assisted by Artificial Intelligence

This group aims to build a lasting scholarly dynamic, bringing together researchers in the humanities and social sciences, AI specialists, theologians and actors engaged in interreligious dialogue. Its purp...

For a new Mediterranean. Space for dialogue and prophecies of peace

Following the research work on the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Common Coexistence signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of al-Azhar Ahmad al-Tayyeb in Abu Dhabi on 4 February 2019, ...

HIWAR – Building bridges with Islam (Madrid)

Project HIWAR was conceived on the grounds of a group of researchers from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas that had the committed dedication to converse, get closer to and build bridges with Islam. Makin...

The document on Human Fraternity: theological, philosophical and social reflections and developments (Rome)

Study on the theme of fraternity from the Abu Dhabi Document on HUMAN FRATERNITY FOR WORLD PEACE AND LIVING TOGETHETR, signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar on February 4, 2019

HEST Cluster: Christian-Muslim Relations (Europe)

Higher Education for Social Transformation (HEST) programme aims to bring Higher Education institutions and Social Centres of the Society of Jesus in Europe together so that they can contribute to the real ...

Islam and society in contemporary Spain (Granada)

Because the presence of Muslim communities in Spain is relatively recent, and because there is not a long tradition of theological study of Islam, we want to start our dialogue with the Islamic tradition by...

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Islamic Visions of Jesus: Revelation, Prophecy, and Eschatology

• Antonio Cuciniello

Abstract Published in the collective volume Jerusalem in Memory and Eschatology: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visions of the Past and Future of Jerusalem, edited by Emma O’Donnell Polyakov (Bloomsbur...

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Questions on Islamic Soteriology in Early Islam

• Jaume Flaquer Garcia

Abstract Published under the original title “Cuestiones sobre la soteriología islámica en el islam primitivo” in the collective volume Riesgos y fidelidades. Miradas teológicas para un mundo plu...

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The Uncreated Muslim Qur’an and the Eternally Begotten Christian Logos

• Jaume Flaquer Garcia

Abstract Published under the original title “El Corán musulmán increado y el Logos cristiano eternamente engendrado” in the monographic section Logos, Agape, Sarx. Una dialógica cristiana of iss...

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Les Affranchis. Des dérives religieuses dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam

• Roberta Collu Moran

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The First Council of Nicaea (325) and the Christian-Muslim Dialogue on God’s Unity and Trinity

• Dirk Ansorge

Abstract Published under the original title “Das erste Konzil von Nizäa (325) und der christlich-muslimische Dialog über Gottes Einheit und Dreifaltigkeit” in issue 2/2025 of CIBEDO-Beiträge, th...

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Christian-Muslim Relations Today: Some Reflections

• David Marshall

Abstract Published as “Christian-Muslim Relations Today: Some Reflections” in a special issue of The Muslim World marking the 50th anniversary of the Duncan Black Macdonald Center (Hartford), th...

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Ḥaydar Ibrāhīm ʿAlī, a Thinker on Multiple Fronts

• Guy-Raymond Sarkis

Abstract Ḥaydar Ibrāhīm ʿAlī, a Sudanese sociologist of religion, is a committed intellectual whose writings both arise from and respond to the challenges of his society. He calls for a liberation theology ...

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Literary, Semiotic and Hermeneutical Approaches to the Qur’an in the Modern Period

• Wasim Salman

Abstract In this contribution to issue 51 (Mélanges) of the journal Islamochristiana, published in Italian as Approcci letterari, semiotici ed ermeneutici al Corano nel periodo moderno, Wasim Salman surveys...

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Islamic Lessons for Christians

• Gabriel Said Reynolds

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Kenneth Cragg and the Event of the Qur’an

• Timo Güzelmansur

Article by Timo Güzelmansur published under the title Kenneth Cragg und das Ereignis des Koran on the theological portal feinschwarz.net (12 June 2026, open access). Timo Güzelmansur presents the Anglican t...

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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 Humanitas, ...

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

• Rémi Caucanas

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Diploma in Interreligious Studies

The Gregorian Center for Interreligious Studies offers, for the 2020/2021 academic year, a path in two semesters for the achievement of the Diploma in Interreligious Studies. It will be possible to deepen t...

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Study program “Islam and Christian-Muslim Encounters”

The Sankt Georgen University of Applied Sciences offers students of Catholic theology and philosophy as well as guest and second students an introduction to Islam with a view to Christian-Muslim encounters....

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Licenciate in Arabic Studies and Islamic Studies

The conviction which motivates PISAI is that the Christian task to meet face to face with Muslims should be based not solely on subjective good will but also on an objective, scientifically grounded knowled...

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Diploma in Arabic and Islamic Studies

Diploma obtained at the end of the first year of the Licence It offers students an in-depth study of the Arabic language, Islam Studies and data relating to Islamic-Christian dialogue. https://fr.pisai.it/f...

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University Certificate in Islamic-Christian Initial Culture

This course aims to identify the basic principles of Christian and Islamic beliefs and the means of expressing them, as well as the historical aspects and developments that these two religions have undergon...

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Bachelor in Islamic-Christian Studies

Given the growing importance of interfaith dialogue as an entry point for achieving peace and promoting the values of coexistence in many societies, particularly in Lebanon and the Arab world, the Institute...

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Certificate in Christian-Muslim Dialogue

People who have completed this training will be able to work in organisations that work for interreligious dialogue. They will be able to assist in the organisation of interreligious activities in cultural,...

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Master in Christian-Muslim relations

In September 2007, the Institute of Islamic-Christian Studies at Saint Joseph University in Beirut opened a “Master in Islamic-Christian Relations” in Arabic. In September 2011, this course is d...