Iraqi Christians greet Muslims before Ramadan

Ramadan began yesterday. Here's a story that seems consistent with an Emergent outlook, to me (not to mention, heroic).

Think so? And if so, is there an Eastern Iowa corollary?

clipped from www.speroforum.com “We need signs of dialogue in Iraq, otherwise, all is lost”. This is what the Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk, Msgr. Louis Sako maintains ... [He] invites the Christian faithful of his diocese to unite themselves in prayer to their “Muslim brothers” in Iraq, during Ramadan, Islam’s holy month. ... The prelate – who yesterday issued a copy of his greetings in Arabic ... has published a calendar of Ramadan rites and has distributed it to over 3 thousand families in the city ... During this period – Msgr. Sako has invited [Christians] “to respect the feelings of Muslim citizens, not to eat and to drink publicly during this month, and not to ware [sic] indecent dress, and to join them in praying for ... unity, stability, and the safe[ty of] the lives and dignity of Iraqis”... “Ramadan – continues his message - is a special time of prayer and progress in virtue, reconciliation and forgiveness, compassion and peace ... "to realize a society of love, harmony, truth and justice" ...