Posted on 05/04/2021 6:10:47 PM PDT by marshmallow
BARCELONA (Reuters) - With COVID-19 restrictions preventing Barcelona's Islamic population from celebrating Ramadan at the usual indoor venues, a Catholic church has offered up its open-air cloisters for Muslims to eat and pray together.
Every evening between 50 and 60 Muslims, many of them homeless, stream into the centuries-old stone passages of the Santa Anna church, where volunteers offer a hearty meal of home-cooked food.
"We are all the same... If you are Catholic or of another religion and I am Muslim, that's fine," said Hafid Oubrahim, a 27-year old Moroccan of Berber descent who attends the dinners.
"We are all like brothers and we must help each other too."
During the month of Ramadan, observant Muslims do not eat between sunrise and sundown, breaking their fast only after nightfall with a meal known as Iftar.
Faouzia Chati, president of the Catalan Association of Moroccan Women, used to organise Iftar gatherings in the city, but limits on indoor dining forced her to seek an alternative space with good ventilation and room for distancing.
She found a receptive ear in Father Peio Sanchez, Santa Anna's rector, who sees the meeting of different faiths as emblematic of civic coexistence.
"People are very happy that Muslims can do Iftar in a Catholic church, because religions serve to unite us, not to separate us," said Chati.
Sanchez looked on as a man intoned the Muslim evening call to prayer beneath the orange trees of the church's central courtyard, illuminated by the flames of gas heaters.
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I’m guessing that the catholics won’t be celebrating Easter in a masque
Muslims in a church during Ramadan? That can’t end well.
Please don’t behead me.
dinnnnners
I’d check the hostess gift
Insanity.
Doesn’t that act make the church a mosque in the eyes of Muslims?
Countdown to “sudden ackbar”.
Yes.
It’s all fun and games till the Musloids nail your head to the church door...
Any guesses as to whether any mosque, anywhere, would roll out the welcome wagon for Catholics?
I’m sure this gesture will be reciprocated. /s
When DIA was being planned it was to contain an interfaith chapel. Muslims rejected every single plan. They were adamant only a separate Muslim chapel would do - they would not pray with Christians or Jews. So, DIA has two interfaith chapels, even though one of them is only for one faith.
what Our Savior went through to establish the new covenant or an expanded belief is completely ignored
“We are all the same... If you are Catholic or of another religion and I am Muslim, that’s fine,” said Hafid Oubrahim, a 27-year old Moroccan of Berber descent who attends the dinners.
“We are all like brothers and we must help each other too.”
Hafid is either not a very well informed Muslim, or is practicing taqiya.
there is no god but allah and mohammad is his prophet
accordingly, all houses of worship belong to allah
that’s the way they see it
It will eventually end in a new world monolithic religion as the world unites under the power of the Antichrist. And many will gladly do so.
“...’because religions serve to unite us, not to separate us,’ said Chati.”
Not up on your, ‘Religions as a Cover for Evil,’ are ya, Chati?
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