Cairo, July 4.─ The dialogue continues between the Vatican and the Al-Azhar Authority of Sunnite Islam of Cairo, Egypt, stresses a statement of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, this Tuesday, July 4, 2017.
“Following the previous Agreement of May 28, 1998, and in the light of addresses of Pope Francis and of the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Mohamed al-Tayyeb during the historic peace conference at Cairo last April 28, the common engagement is express to pursue the shared reflections, geared to promoting a fruitful and effective inter-religious dialogue, centered in particular on the promotion of peace and the building of a more just world,” specifies the press release.
In fact, a meeting took place yesterday, Monday, July 3, 2017, at the Apostolic Nunciature in Egypt, between the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) and Al-Azhar’s Center for Dialogue (ACD).
The ACD’s delegation was made up of the Sheikh, Professor Mohey al-Din Afifi Ahmed, Secretary General of Al -Azhar’s Academy of Islamic Researches and coordinator of the dialogue at ACD, and of Dr Kamal Boraiqa Abdelsalam, member of the same Center.
The PCID’s delegation was made up of Monsignor Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot, M.C.C.J, “Number 2” Secretary of the PCID; of Monsignor Khaled Akasheh, chief of the bureau for Islam and of Father Jean Druel, O.P., Director of Cairo’s Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies ...
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