Posted on 02/25/2016 4:36:44 AM PST by marshmallow
Vatican City, Feb 25, 2016 / 12:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For Pope Francis, dialogue with Islam is a core issue. He recently voiced hopes to meet a major Sunni leader: the Grand Imam of al-Azhar Mosque, Ahmed el-Tayeb.
"I want to meet him. I know that he would like it," the Pope said during his Feb. 18 in-flight press conference.
The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, headed by Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, is reaching out to al-Azhar Mosque. "We are looking for the way, always through Cardinal Tauran because it is the path, but we will achieve it," Pope Francis said on his flight from Mexico to Italy.
The al-Azhar Mosque and its companion university are the most prominent institutions of Sunni Islam. Both institutions were founded in the 10th century. In 1961, the university added non-religious curricula.
el-Tayeb has been imam of the al-Azhar Mosque since his 2010 election. He was elected rector of the university in 2003. He is considered a moderate Sunni who has worked to prevent Islamic radicalization.
Father Miguel Ayuso Guixot, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, visited al-Azhar on Feb. 16 and met with the mosque's deputy imam, Abbas Shuman. The Holy See Press Office said the two had a "cordial meeting."
At this meeting, the priest invited the Grand Imam to meet with the Pope at the Vatican. Among the many reasons this Feb. 16 meeting is noteworthy: al-Azhar had broken relations with the Vatican in 2011.
On Jan. 1 of that year, a major bombing took place in Alexandria. The attack on Coptic Christians killed 23 people.
In an immediate reaction, Benedict XVI labeled the attacks as "terrorism" that "brutally affected worshippers." He characterized the attacks as part of a "strategy of violence" against Christians. He reiterated his concerns......
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Why yes. Egypt, where the Muslim brotherhood started is the key.
Francis needs to go there without his armored pope mobile or his entourage of bodyguards and talk to them face to face.
To show they are reasonable people.
Go Francis, go.
Sure Francis go ahead and pet the scorpions and snakes. They want to be your friends.
Pope Neville Chamberlain.
I’m sure the finest wines and cheeses will be delivered to their dinner table amd bread will be broken as ole Francis is Taqiyya’d to death about how peaceful Islam is and they mean absolutely no harm to the West and Christianity. Francis will swallow it whole with absolutely no discernment because he probably hasn’t studied his bible for decades instead just reading his lines to appease the people and fool them so he can hold his title.
The only dialogue they ever seemed to understand was the Crusades.
There is no reasoning with the demonic.
No doubt, if Francis could schedule a dialogue dinner with Satan he would not hesitate to do so.
First mistake, pope, is thinking that izlam is a religion. It’s not. It’s a violent world-domination movement cleverly disguised as a religion.
Radical Islam wants to eliminate the pope and his cardinals and turn St. Peter’s into a mosque. There’s no way for a pope to make friends with that.
I do not say this lightly but I really think the demons have taken over the Vatican...this Pope is the worst in my lifetime.
Remember that scene we were shown over and over where the Pope placed his hands on a man in a wheelchair (who looked mentally challenged) and when he did so, the man seemed to grimace and almost collapse? And many people, including myself, assumed he had inadvertently done an exorcism?
Well I now believe it was the opposite. I believe that the man, who appeared to be an innocent simpleton, was overcome when evil touched him...I really do believe that this Pope is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
We are living in very scary times...
The problem, Frank baby, is that they REALLY DO want to chop off your head.
On the Spanish steps—AND on al Jazeera.
LIVE.
The continued islamization of the Catholic Church...and the world in general.
Please correct the first letter in the title from “P” to “D”. Thank you.
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