{"id":50101,"date":"2017-11-07T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/11\/07\/sunni-islam-leader-meets-with-pope-francis-for-third-time\/"},"modified":"2017-11-07T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T18:45:00","slug":"sunni-islam-leader-meets-with-pope-francis-for-third-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/11\/07\/sunni-islam-leader-meets-with-pope-francis-for-third-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunni Islam leader meets with Pope Francis for third time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That's how<strong> friendly <\/strong>the <strong>encounter<\/strong> was <strong>between the pope and the Gran Imam of al-Azhar University<\/strong>, the most important Sunni Islam center that educates its intellectuals.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI welcome you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The message of this meeting is the warmth of the conversation and gestures<\/strong> between both religious leaders.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI'm sorry I'm not able to speak Italian to express what I feel.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pope gave him a medallion with the peace angel and the medal from his fifth year as pontiff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt's the medal from the fifth year of my pontificate. I have dedicated it to persecuted immigrants.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ahmed Muhammad al-Tayyib frequently asks for Christians and Muslims to work together against terrorism<\/strong>, poverty and disease. In Egypt, he thanked Pope Francis for reminding that terrorists are not good Muslims.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relations with the Vatican haven't always been good, though. In 2011, al-Tayyib ended the dialogue in protest of statements Benedict XVI <\/strong>made about the discrimination of Christians in Egypt, which in turn also upset Coptic Christians.<\/p>\n<p>The man in charge of building bridges was Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, who accompanied him at the Vatican.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>'My friend...\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After the official meeting, Pope Francis and the Gran Imam moved to the pope's residence, where they continued the encounter in a more informal way.&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI'm sorry I'm not able to speak Italian to express what I feel,\u201d the Gran Imam of al-Azhar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":27998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4lc9YagFeMQ","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bgranmuftieng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bgranmuftiint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}