On Friday evening Pope Benedict XVI visits the Park East Synagogue New York where he will gift a faithful copy of a page taken from an illuminated parchment in the Vatican Apostolic Library.

The movie Fitna, the much anticipated anti Qur'an film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, is already casting such a long shadow that a number of Dutch Christians and Muslims think it is time to take action.

The event was attended by around fifty representatives of the Anglican, Catholic, Russian Orthodox, Jewish Community and various Muslim organizations. Academic institutions that participated in the even included the Cambridge and London Universities, King's College, as well as officials of Britain, media and diplomatic corps in London.