Church vows to continue dialogue with Muslims

The president of the Canadian bishops’ conference has said the Church will continue its dialogue with Muslim communities in the wake of two attacks by suspected Islamist terrorists last week in which two Canadian soldiers died.

Speaking of the nation’s “profound sadness”, the Archbishop of Gatineau, Paul-André Durocher, said in a statement: “We worry that the horror of terrorism is taking root in our soil.”

He said “violent distortions of Islam” caused suffering for peace-loving Muslims and non-Muslims, and that openness and trust were “ever more essential between our faith communities”.