Pope Francis to host Sunni Muslim leader at Vatican

This combination of file pictures created on May 19, 2016 shows (L) Pope Francis on May 23, 2013 at St Peter's basilica at the Vatican, and (R) Grand Imam of al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb at the al-Azhar headquarters in Cairo on October 11, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE AND KENZO TRIBOUILLARD)

Pope Francis is to meet the grand imam of Cairo’s Al-Azhar at the Vatican on Monday in an unprecedented encounter between the leader of the world’s Catholics and the highest authority in Sunni Islam.

Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, who heads the mosque and seat of learning considered the most prestigious institution in the main branch of Islam, will have an audience with the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told AFP.

“This audience is being prepared and has been scheduled for Monday,” he said. “It will be a first.”

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Tom Angle
8 years ago

Two men of Satan meeting. Is anyone surprised?

BayouCoyote
BayouCoyote
8 years ago
Reply to  Tom Angle

Naw..more like a S-American Dirty War Bouncer/Pimp trying to set up a whorin trade route to the degenerate Al-Asqa Uni-brow-envious-inbred freak clan leader that considers itself Holeeee w/a dog bowl on its’ head as a sign of its’ alpha jackal-pup’s status..that’s all.