Is the picture of the Pope with a Muslim verified that he is kissing the Koran, or is it a bible. Does anyone know? V's wife.
The only info I have found is on bashing sites which definitively state he knowingly and enthusiastically kissed the Koran. I've only seen that one head on photo which doesn't show his lips. I haven't seen an independent report of what happened. Was he told it was the Koran or did someone lie to him and set him up to get the photo?
I do know that he was meeting with clerics from Iraq that day including Mar Rouphael I Bidawid Patriarch of Babylon for the Catholic Chaldean discussing a possible trip to Iraq. He is not the other person in the photo, either. Maybe a few questions to the folks at EWTN are in order.
Mar Rouphael I Bidawid