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Can Christians and Muslims pray together? Caution, hot potato as dialogue experts are quick to point to such a question. And actually the difference between the Christian and Islamic image of God makes common prayer at least very difficult: everywhere misunderstandings are threatened . But the Archbishop of the Algerian capital Algiers, Bader Abdullah believes in the possibility of common prayer. Behind him is the experience of a small local church which even in the most difficult time was during the cινιℓ ωαr in Algeria, held out hands of friendship to Muslims.

"Not only official dialogue with major conferences on specific topics will help. There are also other dialogues that goes so far that we even pray together: what I call spiritual dialogue. Of course, praying with others does not take place every day. It belongs to permanent contact with these people, conversations, eating and going out together. At the end you can say: Let us pray together ...I think it's fantastic! "

Archbishop Bader reported several prayer initiatives with Christian and Muslim participants. They were already beyond the experimental phase:

"Today, well-organized groups come together. But there are other models, we hold together a conference, let us also pray together! I think a dialogue that extends to common prayer, is a very valuable dialogue. It is more valuable than just holding meetings. Praying means to place ourselves together before God. I think it's fantastic and a very valuable experience. "

The joint prayers with Muslims for the Archbishop of Algiers belongs to the broader "dialogue of daily life together". This idea even attracts reservations and resistance from some Catholics in Algeria. However:

"I think we have no choice. Either we live in a ghetto, remain in the convent, enclosed in a chapel or a house, or because we really live, where we live, and take on the challenge of meeting the other! Even if they have different beliefs from mine and do not share my faith – that is a good chance of encounter. Even if it is not set up specifically. I note, however, that these encounters change the view of others about us. Many journalists say to me after an interview that I had imagined you differently, but now I see that you're an open person."



I think this is a great example of fallout from Assisi I, II and III. We have modern popes promoting the one world religion agenda of the Freemasons, Jєωs and Communists, and the Catholic Church is their only real enemy. Everyone else is easy prey to their agenda. Now the Church is rolling over, thanks to JPII and B16.
What's missing here? Well, besides the Buddha on top of the tabernacle, there is not droning voice in the hallway saying, "This is not syncretism!" Otherwise it's pretty much Assisi gone viral.

The modern Church has abandoned definition. But here we see what happens when definition is missing. What is "dialogue?" What does it mean to "place ourselves together before God?"

What is "dialogue" as this article uses the term? It is believers and unbelievers coming together to discuss their personal beliefs, to "discover the truth," presuming from the start that no one already has the truth.

"Praying means to place ourselves together before God." When all the gods of the heathen are devils, but we're placing ourselves together with them in prayer, who's to say the "God" before whom we gather isn't the devil, especially when the person leading the prayer is pagan, Mohammedan or animist or fill-in-the-blank?

Who's the winner when devil worshipers lead the prayers for everyone? And you can't say that doesn't happen, because if we're really "open persons," and practice this dialogue and prayer together, we can't object when we take turns and everyone gets a chance to lead the prayers. It's only fair.