Catholic University in Iowa Opens Sex-Segregated Islamic Prayer Space
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11 May 2018
St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, inaugurated a new prayer space for Muslim students this week, co-designed by the Saudi Student Association.
The new prayer space, which is equipped with sinks for ritual foot-washing and separate areas for male and female worshippers, was built in memory of Father Joe DeFrancisco, a professor of comparative religions who died last July at the age of 69.
At the priest’s “ecumenical” funeral Mass
in 2017, fellow Catholic clergy were joined at the altar by a rabbi, an
imam, an Anglican priest and a Lutheran chaplain, according to the
college’s website .
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