{"id":50296,"date":"2017-09-21T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/09\/21\/popes-meeting-with-the-world-muslim-league\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T13:33:00","slug":"popes-meeting-with-the-world-muslim-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/09\/21\/popes-meeting-with-the-world-muslim-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope's meeting with the World Muslim League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pope met with the leader of the main Islamic NGO, the<strong> World Muslim League<\/strong>. This Mecca-based organization rejects violence and terrorism, and promotes <strong>dialogue<\/strong>. It also works in the apologetic defense of Islam and finances some Muslim communities.<\/p>\n<p>After the meeting with <strong>Muhammad al-Issa<\/strong>, Pope Francis greeted the rest of the delegation.<\/p>\n<p>As a gift, the Secretary General gave him this sculpture, a symbol of Islamic architecture and a desire for dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>The pope gave him a pen that imitates the columns of<strong> St. Peter's Baldachin<\/strong>. He said he hopes Muhammad al-Issa will remember this meeting when he writes messages of <strong>peace<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Saudi press, al-Issa appreciated the pope's aversion toward those who identified Islam with extremism or terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Also, according to a Vatican press release, in the meetings at the Vatican, \u201cit was reiterated that situations exist where freedom of conscience and of religion are not entirely respected and protected.\u201d Thus supplying \u201can urgent need to remedy this by renewing 'religious discourse' and reviewing school books.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 21, 2017. They agree to establish a joint permanent committee in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/coeUpcHdpUg","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaemusulmanieng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaemusulmaniint.mov","type":"none","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50296"}],"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=50296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}