TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pope Francis on Saturday joined Morocco's King Mohammed VI in saying Jerusalem al-Quds should be a "symbol of peaceful coexistence" for Christians, Jews and Muslims, on the first day of a visit to the North African country.
News ID: 3468206 Publish Date : 2019/03/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pope Francis on Sunday became the first pontiff to set foot on the Arabian Peninsula, just hours after issuing his strongest condemnation yet of the war against Yemen, where his host the United Arab Emirates has a leading military role.
News ID: 3467869 Publish Date : 2019/02/04
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pope Francis made an urgent appeal for an end to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen on Sunday as he embarked on the first-ever papal trip to the Arabian Peninsula, where he is seeking to turn a page in Christian-Muslim relations while also ministering to a unique, thriving island of Catholicism.
News ID: 3467867 Publish Date : 2019/02/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An international gathering of religious figures got underway in the UAE’s capital of Abu Dhabi on Sunday, ahead of a visit to the Persian Gulf Arab country by Pope Francis.
News ID: 3467865 Publish Date : 2019/02/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pope Francis will “encourage the Catholics throughout the world to continue to put into practice the teachings of the Church regarding dialogue with Muslims” when he visits the United Arab Emirates, according to one expert on interreligious dialogue.
News ID: 3467837 Publish Date : 2019/01/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pope Francis, in a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, expressed concern about the status of Jerusalem al-Quds, months after the US recognized the occupied Palestinian city as Israel’s “capital” despite international criticisms and warnings.
News ID: 3467378 Publish Date : 2018/12/04
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The leader of the worldwide Catholic Church thanked an Iranian woman for gifting him calligraphy works featuring verses of the Holy Quran.
News ID: 3467212 Publish Date : 2018/11/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A series of Quranic calligraphy works by an Iranian artist was given to the Vatican Ambassador to the Philippines Gabriel Cacci in a ceremony on Friday.
News ID: 3466664 Publish Date : 2018/09/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned the killing of Palestinians near the Gaza-Israel border, saying the deaths would only lead to more violence, and appealed for dialogue to bring justice and peace to the Middle East.
News ID: 3465863 Publish Date : 2018/05/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) secretary-general met Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday and thanked him for his stance on the plight of Rohingya Muslims and migration issues.
News ID: 3465409 Publish Date : 2018/03/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pope Francis asked for forgiveness Friday from Muslim refugees in Bangladesh for all the hurt and indifference they have endured, demanded their rights be recognized and pronounced the word he had so assiduously avoided only days earlier in Myanmar: "Rohingya."
News ID: 3464574 Publish Date : 2017/12/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pope Francis is demanding that the international community take "decisive measures" to resolve the causes of the mass exodus of Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar, breaking his recent silence over what the UN has declared to be a textbook case of "ethnic cleansing."
News ID: 3464569 Publish Date : 2017/11/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pope Francis insisted Tuesday that Myanmar’s future depends on respecting the rights of each ethnic group, an indirect show of support for Rohingya Muslims who have been subject to decades of discrimination and a recent military crackdown described by the UN as a textbook campaign of “ethnic cleansing.”
News ID: 3464551 Publish Date : 2017/11/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) – In August, responding to the first reports of Rohingya Muslims fleeing an army-led crackdown in Myanmar, Pope Francis called on his flock to pray for “our Rohingya brethren.”
News ID: 3464526 Publish Date : 2017/11/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Leader of the world’s Catholics met on Tuesday with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed Muhammad el-Tayeb who is in Rome to attend a conference organized by the St Egidio community.
News ID: 3464370 Publish Date : 2017/11/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Hunger striking Palestinian prisoners wrote to Pope Francis, urging the pontiff to immediately take a stance against the Israeli regime with regard to the ordeals of Palestinian inmates.
News ID: 3462802 Publish Date : 2017/05/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Egypt’s al-Azhar Islamic University hailed Pope Francis’s recent remarks against Myanmar’s repression of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.
News ID: 3462179 Publish Date : 2017/02/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pope Francis visited a mosque in overwhelmingly Muslim Azerbaijan on Sunday and told leaders of all faiths that God should never be used to justify fundamentalism.
News ID: 3461075 Publish Date : 2016/10/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pope Francis will visit a refugee camp and a mosque in the Central African Republic (CAR) as well as a slum in Kenya during a trip to Africa next month loaded with potential security risks.
News ID: 3387231 Publish Date : 2015/10/18
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pope Francis expressed “closeness” with the world’s Muslims on Thursday after hundreds of pilgrims were killed in a stampede outside the holy city of Makkah in the worst disaster to strike the annual Hajj pilgrimage in a quarter century.
News ID: 3367173 Publish Date : 2015/09/25
