Interreligious dialogue means striving for mutual respect, understanding, cooperation and coexistence of different religious communities. At the Second Vatican Council the Catholic Church spoke about the importance of dialogue with Muslims for the first time in a positive way. They highlighted the similarities between the Christian and Muslim religious truths which the Christians and Muslims could build a dialogue upon. The so-called theological dialogue, which is based upon the common or similar religious truths, has never been proven to be successful. In most cases it led to each side claiming to be right, or even to a dispute. The dialogue between the Christians and Muslims takes place on the interpersonal level, or in the social, economic and political life. In Slovenia, the dialogue between the Catholics and Muslims wasn't a conversational topic until the Islamic Community in Slovenia was given a permit for the construction of Islamic religious and cultural centre in Ljubljana. The cooperation between the Slovenian Catholic Church and the Islamic Community in Slovenia takes place in the form of various meetings of their representatives who stress the need for dialogue and strive for mutual respect.
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