Pakistan clerics say Pope must go
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Radical Muslim clerics and scholars in Pakistan demand the Pope's removal for what they call insults against Islam.
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Religious scholars gathered outside a besieged Pakistani mosque on Monday to beseech Islamist militants to send out dead and wounded along with women and children, a day after authorities gave "a final warning" to surrender.
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Pakistani Muslim clerics said on  Monday they were making a last-ditch bid to avert an assault on  militants holed up in a mosque after authorities issued what  they said was a last warning for them to surrender.
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REGENSBURG, Germany  - Pope Benedict invited   Muslims on Tuesday to join a dialogue of cultures that agrees   the concept of Islamic "holy war" is unreasonable and against   God's nature.
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The head of the world's Anglican church   stepped in to defend Pope Benedict on Monday in the face of   fury from some Islamic groups about the Roman Catholic leader's   use of a medieval quotation on Islam and violence.
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A Christian was sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammed, and a human rights activist Friday urged Pakistan's president to spare his life.
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A senior Iranian cleric said on Friday   that Pope Benedict's recent remarks that angered Muslims were   an "act of madness" and said the leader of the Catholic Church   had "disgraced himself."
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Islamist leaders imprisoned in Britain, among them radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, branded Pope Benedict XVI a &quot;tyrant&quot; and called indirectly on Muslims to &quot;destroy&quot; their enemies.
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After Pope Benedict XVI infuriated the Islamic world with his remarks on holy war, Vatican officials scrambled to save his planned trip to predominantly Muslim Turkey.
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CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy  - Pope Benedict said on   Monday that Christians and Muslims must reject violence, in an   unprecedented meeting with Islamic envoys to defuse anger at   his use of quotes saying their faith was spread by the sword.
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Pope Benedict XVI's comments on religious radicalism are another sign of his intention to bring his voice into one of the world's most critical showdowns: Islam's internal struggles between moderates and extremists.
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In Iraq, a senior Muslim cleric told AFP that a US-led raid had disrupted the process of their release, but that he had issued a fatwa, or a religious ruling, calling for their immediate freedom.
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The top cleric of a mosque being besieged by Pakistani forces urges students to surrender or flee.
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Visiting one of Italy's most crime-ridden cities, Pope Benedict XVI told ayatollahs, rabbis, priests and patriarchs from around the world Sunday that religion must never be used to justify violence.
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Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf met Pope John Paul II, who urged him to adopt a &quot;spirit of dialogue and tolerance&quot; in his region.
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Al-Qaida in Iraq warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that its war against Christianity and the West will go on until Islam takes over the world, and Iran's supreme leader called for more protests over the pontiff's remarks on Islam.
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Vatican relations with the Islamic world must be restarted from square one because Muslims insist on misinterpreting Pope Benedict's recent comments on Islam, Germany's top Catholic cardinal said in an article on Wednesday.