Ghana Catholics Read Qur'an to Promote Dialogue

Please read this story about Ghana's Cardinal and how he is promoting the reading of the Qur'an by Catholics to help in dialogue and peace:

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0705890.htm

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GHANA-ISLAM Oct-16-2007 (440 words) With photos posted July 2. xxxi Cardinal: Ghana's Catholics learn Islamic texts to further dialogue. By Simon Caldwell

Catholic News ServiceLONDON (CNS) -- Catholics in Ghana are being taught the Qur'an and Islamic scriptures to further interreligious dialogue and community cohesion, said the country's first cardinal.

Cardinal Peter Turkson of Cape Coast, Ghana, said in an Oct. 15 interview with Catholic News Service that relations between Catholics and Muslims in Ghana were "pretty cordial," but he acknowledged that rising Islamic militancy around the world presented new challenges to relations between Christians and Muslims in his country.

Cardinal Turkson said that any rising tensions were being countered by a "dynamic program of action."

"We are promoting the study of the Qur'an among Catholics so there is no ignorance about or intolerance of what it stands for," the cardinal said.

"We have what we call a dialogue of action," he said. "We come together to undertake common projects.

"If a well needs digging for water, we will drill the borehole together, for example, and we build schools together," he said.

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I am delighted to see this. There is nothing to fear in reading the Qur'an (or the Bible for that matter) because both enhance rather than detract from the glory of the one God.