Where Islam-Church Relations Are OK

VATICAN CITY, OCT. 6, 2009 .- A bishop at the Africa synod is proposing that North Africans participate in the 2010 synod on the Middle East, since Muslim-Christian relations in the north of the African continent are different than in the sub-Saharan region ...

[Joe DeCaro]

re Catholic.net :

"...'the vast majority on African Muslims live in North Africa, a geographic area completely absent in the 'instrumentum laboris.' Another point is that almost 80% of the 350 million Muslim Arabs live in Northern African countries.'This is just to point out that Islamic-Christian relations in North Africa are different from those in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, and even from the Arab countries in the Middle East.'"