You Will Be My Witnesses Grawemeyer Award Winner Irfan Omar is an assistant

Irfan Omar is an assistant professor of Islamic studies at Marquette University and co-editor of Heirs of Abraham: The Future of Muslim

Its relevance begins with the Catholic community but it reaches beyond the church to other religious traditions to the role of states and international institutions and--most powerfully--to the lives of those seeking to build the structures of peace in conflicted communities throughout the world

He was appointed by Pope John Paul II to the Pontifical Commission of the Historical Sciences and by Pope Benedict XVI to the Pontifical Commission on Religious Relations with Muslims

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he is also author of Human Experience of God

You Will Be My Witnesses Grawemeyer Award Winner Irfan Omar is an assistantThe holy witnesses whose stories and images are presented here take a stand in the court of life to speak the truth of God. From famous and lesser known saints to prophets and peacemakers from our own time, these images open a doorway to the sacred. Their stories call us to witness God's compassionate love. John Dear is a priest, activist, lecturer, and author of thirty books including Thomas Merton Peacemaker; You Will Be My Witnesses (with art by