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Vatican, Muslim Scholars Announce Alliance

The Vatican and a delegation of Muslim scholars have agreed to start a permanent dialogue to discuss theological, social and political issues.

The Catholic Muslim forum will meet every two years, alternating between Rome and a Muslim country. Pope Benedict will attend the first forum in November. A speech he delivered in 2006 offended many Muslims and helped to prompt this effort at mutual understanding between the two faiths. Terrorism will be one of the main topics at the forum.

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Sylvia Poggioli
Sylvia Poggioli is senior European correspondent for NPR's International Desk covering political, economic, and cultural news in Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe, and the Balkans. Poggioli's on-air reporting and analysis have encompassed the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the turbulent civil war in the former Yugoslavia, and how immigration has transformed European societies.