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
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Vatican officially recognized the state of Palestine in a new treaty finalized Wednesday, with an agreement on Catholic Church activities in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority.
News ID: 3303936 Publish Date : 2015/05/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Concluding his three-day visit to Turkey, Pope Francis has confirmed that Islam is a religion of peace, rejecting rants targeting Muslims over acts committed by a minority group.
News ID: 2614109 Publish Date : 2014/12/02
As the Israeli war on Gaza entered its seventh day, Pope Francis has called for a cease-fire in the Middle East, praying for peace in the occupied Holy Land.
News ID: 1429854 Publish Date : 2014/07/15
A seminar titled “Dialogue and Friendship among Divine Religions” will be held on May 14 in Jordan.
News ID: 1404808 Publish Date : 2014/05/09
The leader of Catholic community Pope Francis on Friday met with Secretary General of Organization of Islamic Conference Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Vatican City.
News ID: 1341365 Publish Date : 2013/12/15
