“There are going to be 40 programs on Islam and the West,” says Council Executive Director Dirk Ficca, according to an article published yesterday by IslamOnline.net.  The article discusses the role of Islam at the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions, and details the participation of Dr Sakena Yacoobi in the Opening Plenary.

To read the full article, click here.

Rasha Mohammad’s article today in IslamOnline.net starts off saying “religious and spiritual coexistence is always in a higher plane.” The article is largely an analysis of the mission of the Council for the Parliament of the World’s Religions, and carefully makes the distinction between interreligious unity and interreligious harmony.

To read Mohammad’s full article, click here.

To read the Mission of the Council, click here.