In the “for what it’s worth” department comes this news. While the interreligious and indifferentist aspects of this piece are evidently problematic, perhaps the Blessed Virgin — whose role in the eventual christening of Muslims we strongly believe in — will use this to occasion a true conversion of hearts.
(Sputnik) Muslims in the Syrian city of Tartous have inaugurated a mosque named after the Virgin Mary, the Syrian Arab News Agency has reported. Observers called the opening a symbol of peace and religious tolerance between the country’s multiethnic, multi-confessional society.
