John Paul II? As in, “ May Saint John Baptist protect Islam”. That John Paul II?
ROME, June 21, 1995— A grand mosque on the scale of some of Islam’s most holy shrines formally opened its doors today in a multinational, multilingual ceremony that ended on a note of challenge.
If the mosque — the first to be built in the home of the Roman Catholic Church — has a message, it is one of religious tolerance. And that was the message that Pope John Paul II threw back at the Islamic world today as he hailed the mosque’s opening at his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square.
-— John Paul II? As in, “ May Saint John Baptist protect Islam”. That John Paul II? -—
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