Huff Post.
Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, considered one of the most important centers of learning in Sunni Islam, announced yesterday that Pope Francis has sent a personal messageto the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al Tayeb.
Pope Francis conveyed his good wishes to Al-Tayeb via a face-to-face meeting between the Grand Imam and the Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt, Mgr. Jean-Paul Gobel, reports Catholic website Abouna. Gobel personally delivered Pope Francis’ Ramadan greetings to the Muslim world as well as a message to Al Tayeb expressing his hope for greater dialogue between Muslims and Christians.
The Vatican Insider reported that the Pope’s letter highlighted the Vatican’s respect for Islam and said he hoped that every effort would be made towards achieving “mutual understanding between the world’s Christians and Muslims in order to build peace and justice.” Al Tayeb responded that Al-Azhar desires to send a message of “respect for people of every religion and the safeguarding of human dignity and the highest values described in the Quran and the Sunnah,” adding that Muslims are willing “to collaborate to help justice and progress grow among the people of the Earth.”
Pope Francis
Yes Yes Yes !!!!!! we can do it…
“mutual understanding between the world’s Christians and Muslims in order to build peace and justice.”
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Five years ago Prince Ghazi of Jordan launched this initiative. Nice that the Pope responds now.
Rafiq it is nice of you now to notice and draw attention 5 years later. Hope you are in the front line to promote it further.
Al-Azhar desires to send a message of “respect for people of every religion and the safeguarding of human dignity and the highest values described in the Quran and the Sunnah,”
nice but quite an impersonal reply…