Saturday, May 03, 2008

Pope meets Iranian delegation

May 3, 2008

VATICAN CITY (Middle East Online) -- Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday met an Iranian Muslim delegation taking part in a seminar on “faith and reason” in Christianity and Islam, the Vatican said.

The delegation was led by the head of Iran’s Islamic Culture and Relations Organization, Mahdi Mostafavi, the Holy See said in a communiqué.

The pope was “especially pleased with the choice of theme” for the seminar, co-led by Mostafavi and Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue.

The participants issued a joint statement afterward saying that “faith and reason are both gifts of God to mankind” and “intrinsically non-violent.” the rest

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