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Pope: All faiths must unite against violence
Jul 18 2008, AP

SYDNEY, Australia _ Pope Benedict XVI told representatives of Islam and other faiths that they must unite to combat religion’s role in “sinister and indiscriminate” violence.Without mentioning terrorism directly, the pontiff said there were those in...

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