Ministry finds fault with Yale Christian-Muslim declaration

by Ethan Cole, Christian Post
Thursday, August 14, 2008

A leading ministry that works to support the persecuted church found parts of a declaration recently adopted by Christian and Muslim leaders troubling because it did not emphasise the differences between the two religions enough and gave too much credit to Islam.

Barnabas Fund’s international director, Dr Patrick Sookhdeo, a former Muslim, says the inclusion of the Koranic commandment to speak to Christian and Jews (K 3:64) in the opening passage of the “Final Declaration" of the Yale Common Word Conference held last month actually calls for the conversion of Christians and Jews to Islam. the rest