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Caption: Bishop John H. Ricard of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Fla., holds 6-month-old Richard Samuel at Our Lady of Apostles Hospital in Akwanga, Nigeria, Sept. 2. The bishop was visiting Ghana and Nigeria with a delegation representing a U.S. bishops' subcommittee on Africa. Nearly 1,500 people receive antiretroviral therapy for the treatment of HIV and AIDS through the hospital. (CNS/Nancy Wiechec)
Bishop John H. Ricard of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Fla., holds 6-month-old Richard Samuel at Our Lady of Apostles Hospital in Akwanga, Nigeria, Sept. 2. The bishop was visiting Ghana and Nigeria with a delegation representing a U.S. bishops' subcommittee on Africa. Nearly 1,500 people receive antiretroviral therapy for the treatment of HIV and AIDS through the hospital. (CNS/Nancy Wiechec)
Interfaith leaders denounce anti-Islamic actions, call for cooperation

By Patricia Zapor
Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Dozens of religious leaders across the spectrum of faiths issued a joint statement Sept. 7 denouncing past and planned attacks against Muslims and Islamic houses of worship and calling for a new era of interfaith cooperation.

In a news conference at the National Press Club, dozens of clergy men and women flanked Ingrid Mattson, the president of the Islamic Society of America, as she described recent attacks on Islam as an aberration of the true views of American Christians, Jews and nonreligious people alike and pleaded with Muslims around the world not to take the hateful views of a minority as representative of the whole nation.
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Caption: A member of the Missionaries of Charity sings during a Mass in honor of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Sept. 5. Following the Mass, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a stamp with of Mother Teresa, the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. (CNS/Bob Roller)
A member of the Missionaries of Charity sings during a Mass in honor of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Sept. 5. Following the Mass, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a stamp with of Mother Teresa, the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. (CNS/Bob Roller)
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Editors: Contents of Origins CNS Documentary Service, Vol. 40, No. 14 (Sept. 9, 2010):

-- In a message to the Muslim community for the end of Ramadan, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, who heads the Vatican agency for interreligious dialogue, recalls the pledges Catholics and Muslims have made to work together to overcome violence among the followers of different religions.

-- People hunger for faith today, and only Jesus Christ, encountered in the lives of his followers, can truly satisfy the depth of their hunger, says Philadelphia Cardinal Justin Rigali.

-- Cardinal John Henry Newman wanted to form Catholics capable of living and witnessing their faith even in a world not always favorable to the concept of faith. Faced with a growing skepticism toward religion that has been compounded by the clergy sex abuse scandal, the church in Ireland needs to recover Cardinal Newman's synthesis of faith and reason if it is to create in young people a new sense of Catholic faith, says Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.

-- In a time of spiritual fatigue, of caution and even disillusionment, a time when many hesitate to project a vital future for the church, Passionist Father Donald Senior, a biblical scholar, reminds that belief in the future and the future of the church is a profound conviction of Christian faith.
 
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