In the annual message for the Islamic month of Ramadan, the Vatican Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue releases is urging all religious believers to extinguish “the fires of hatred, violence, and war, and instead light the gentle candle of peace.”

In a separate message, the Coordinating Secretary for the Department of Ecumenism, Interreligious Dialogue and Dialogue with the Secular World Fr Bonaventure MASHATA, MAfr calls on both Christians and Muslims to “extinguish the fire of war and light the candle of peace.”