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Pope in Morocco: Highlighting Catholic-Muslim ‘dialogue of solidarity’

Catholic News Service, Church in Africa
Mar 20, 2019

Pope Francis wanted to go to Morocco in December to draw attention to the need for international cooperation in assisting migrants and in alleviating the situations that force people to seek a better life outside their homeland.

Pope Francis’s visit to Morocco to focus on migration

Associated Press, Church in Africa
Mar 5, 2019

Morocco’s bishops say migration issues will top the agenda when Pope Francis visits the country that is a key transit point for migrants trying to reach Europe.

Pope’s full schedule for March 30-31 Morocco trip released

Catholic News Service, Vatican
Feb 26, 2019

Pope Francis will travel to Morocco March 30-31 as a “servant of hope” to encourage the country’s small Catholic community, the migrants hosted there and all people of goodwill, said Archbishop Cristobal Lopez Romero of Rabat, the nation’s capital.

Pope to visit Moroccan imam school to boost moderate Islam

Associated Press, Church in Africa
Feb 10, 2019

Pope Francis will meet with migrants in Morocco and visit a training institute for imams that seeks to be a bulwark against Islamic extremism during his March 30-31 visit to the North African nation.

Can UAE trip push past both Regensburg and ‘Can’t we all just get along?’

News Analysis
Feb 3, 2019

There’s a strong case that Islam has – or, at least, should have – replaced Judaism as the Church’s paradigmatic interfaith relationship, which suggests the need for a new model of interreligious dialogue.

Pope’s top aide says Church must ‘do the impossible’ to fight abuse

Vatican
Jan 3, 2019

Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, said the Church must do “everything possible and even the impossible” to fight clerical abuse.