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The head of a papal agency that gives assistance to Christians in the Near East says local Muslims are largely positive towards their Christian neighbors and even appreciative of their presence.
“The broad majority of Muslims are people of good-will,” Monsignor John E. Kozar, president of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, told CNA June 21. “Not only are they tolerant of us Christians, they’re even supportive. They value the schools and clinics that we have. We hope that their influence will calm the radicals, or (even) convert the radicals to a more balanced and tolerant approach of peace among all men and women everywhere,” he added. Monsignor Kozar, a native of Pittsburgh, voiced support for a Palestinian state, suggesting it could help “solve” the turmoil in Syria, Egypt and Iraq. “There has to be some kind of a resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a Palestinian state,” he said. “Right now it is, but it isn’t (a state),” he said. Monsignor Kozar noted that the major players – Russia, France, England, the United States – “all have to lend support to some kind of a resolution.”
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