Pope says the ‘meeting is the message’ as he embraces leader of Islam’s oldest university

With a hugely symbolic hug and an exchange of kisses on the cheek, Pope Francis and the grand imam of Cairo's Al-Azhar Mosque, which houses a 1,000 year-old university, took a major step toward restoring relations between central institutions of the world's two largest faiths, Roman Catholicism and Sunni Islam. The two met privately for […]

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