Religion and international relations

Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., the director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, writes about the importance of interreligious dialogue in today’s world. He wrote about this important topic for America.

After a long struggle for independence from Portugal, the people of Mozambique slipped into a bloody civil war that lasted 16 years, killing more than a million people and sending another 4.5 million fleeing for refuge. With the two sides at a stalemate...