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In Iraq, Pope can deepen ties with Church’s natural Islamic partners
- Mar 4, 2021
Pope Francis’s visit to Iraq could help water a fertile ground for Catholic-Shi’a Islam dialogue.
Iraq trip is opportunity for pope to build rapport with Shiite Muslims
- Feb 21, 2021
As Pope Francis continues his efforts to encourage and personally engage in interreligious dialogue, his planned March trip to Iraq will be an opportunity to extend a hand to the Shiite Muslim community.
Cardinal defends Nigeria’s Shia Muslim minority after crackdown
- Aug 2, 2019
One of Nigeria’s leading prelates has warned that the president’s recent actions against the African nation’s small Shi’ite minority is a threat to religious freedom for all believers in the country.
Pope may be mum, but count on it: Vatican’s watching Iranian drama
- Jan 4, 2018
So far Pope Francis and his Vatican team have been strikingly silent, at least in public, on the latest cycle of street protests and violence in Iran. By no means, however, should that suggest they’re not following the situation closely.
Unique Lebanon shows why refugees need safe zones in Syria
- Oct 28, 2017
Alexis Moukarzel is a Lebanese architect. He said the different religious and ethnic communities in Lebanon might have their own agenda, but “most of them want Lebanon to be stabilized. If it was not like that you would have the spread of the Syrian civil war inside Lebanon.”
How Pope Francis could help Obama on the Iranian deal
- Apr 7, 2015
Popes generally use their Easter Urbi et Orbi address, “to the city and the world,” to pray for peace amid global conflicts. Francis followed that tradition on Sunday, among other things commenting on a tentative nuclear deal between the P5+1 nations, including the United States, and Iran. The pontiff said,
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