Posted on 02/08/2019 5:32:21 PM PST by marshmallow
Vatican City, Feb 6, 2019 / 03:23 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis said Wednesday that his recent trip to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates was a step forward in Catholic-Muslim dialogue and promoting peace among religions.
Though a brief visit, the “scattered seeds” of the Feb. 3-5 trip will bear fruit according to God’s will, he said during the general audience Feb. 6.
The visit to the UAE, and second meeting with the Muslim Grand Imam of al-Azhar, “wrote a new page in the history of dialogue between Christianity and Islam and in the commitment to promote peace in the world on the basis of human brotherhood.”
Pope Francis first met the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb, during a 2017 apostolic visit to Egypt. The two signed a joint document on human fraternity Feb. 4.
In the document, “we condemn all forms of violence, especially those with religious motivation, and we commit ourselves to spreading authentic values and peace throughout the world,” the pope stated.
In this era, he said, when there is strong a temptation to discord between Christian and Islamic cultures, and considering religions as sources of conflict, “we wanted to give a further, clear and decisive sign, that instead it is possible to meet, it is possible to respect and dialogue.”
He added that he recommends people read the document and try to understand it, because it has helpful points for how to carry out a dialogue on human fraternity.
“Despite the diversity of cultures and traditions, the Christian and Islamic world appreciate and protect common values: life, family, religious sense, honor for the elderly, the education of young people, and still other things,” he said
Francis’ trip to the UAE, the first of a pope to the Arabian Peninsula, also fell 800 years.......
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the pope is a wuus it appears, what happened
i cannot comment on that one imam, he could possibly be a good person (or not).. I do not know
but
a “new page with Islam” is hardly the case, alas...
so long as their Koran and Hadiths (commentaries to Koran, in effect) ... remain unreformed....and so long as their clerics keep preaching hate and death or at least conquering and subjugation of Christians, Jews, Hindus, and everyone else on earth
and so long as Islam is best known for its many mass-murdering terrorist murder gangs like PLO PA Hamas Isis Al Quaida Moslem Brotherhood Hezballah and dozens more... all the way from the Phillipines to Europe with cells infiltrated now into many USA cities
so long as Islam remains a hate-filled, Satanic war cult
bent on our destruction
there has, regretfully, NOT been any “new page in relations with Islam”...
Il Papa is either bamboozled (probably?), or else traitor (hopefully, prayerfully.. not!)
Did he kiss the Koran? Does he realize that every country in the Mediterranean region was Christian before it became Muslim due to the cruel and vicious Muslim crusades?
Nah. It was just more submission by apostate frauds to an ongoing 1400 year old murder conspiracy.
Nah. It was just more submission by apostate frauds to an ongoing 1400 year old murder conspiracy.
Relations will be even better when he converts, I guess.
See post #6.
New page = appeasement.
I get how the muslins were part of a dialogue, but considering pope socialista was involved, what was the Christian part?
The very least Francis could be doing is raising theological questions on the assertions made in the Islamic codex (which is their code of observance and behavior) known as Sharia, Beginning with this question
http://www.theusmat.com/islamandfreewill.htm
Instead of reaching out to and defending what Judeo/Christian beliefs are. Challenging the claims that Islamist make they are following God’s command when ruthlessly murdering and torturing non believers and destroy their edifices. Parties with suppressors of the faith
Thank you for the information about the imam. It’s sickrnjng how Pope Francis could embrace him. Jesus embraced sinners but a thousand times less evil than the imam — and Jesus called upon the sinners to repentance and change of their evil ways. Where is pope francis’s Call to this bloodthirsty evil moslem to repentance ?
But no one should be surprised.
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Abortionist praised by Pope speaks at Catholic church, pro-life protesters kicked out
Despite her abortion advocacy, Emma Bonino was praised by Pope Francis in 2016 as a “forgotten great” because of her work with refugees.
Between her abortion activism and being an abortionist herself, Bonino is directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of roughly six million Italian babies between 1968 and today.
Bonino had an illegal abortion at a young age and reportedly worked with a high-volume abortion organization. She herself took part in performing illegal abortions with a crude homemade device, something documented in photographs.
Bonino has worked to liberalize Italian divorce laws, legalize recreational drugs, ban a national nuclear energy program, and has promoted nudism, same-sex “marriage,” transgenderism, the abolition of the armed forces, disbanding of NATO, the liberalization of porn laws, and mandatory sex education.
I had not heard of this. Wish I hadn’t. He truly is an evil man.
Oh my Lord! Thanks for the info. That’s just horrible - this pope I mean. Awful!
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