Vatican City, 28 February 2014 (VIS) –
The Holy See Press Office communicates that yesterday afternoon the
Pope received in the Domus Sanctae Marthae an important Argentine
interreligious group made up of 45 persons: fifteen Jews, fifteen
Muslims and fifteen Catholics.
The group has recently returned from a
pilgrimage to the Holy Land, following a pilgrimage of several days,
ahead of the Holy Father's visit. The group passed through the three
countries he will visit – Jordan , Israel, and Palestine –
meeting with political and religious leaders and visiting the holy
sites of the three religions. Many members of the group, which
includes several rabbis, imams and priests, knew the former Cardinal
Bergoglio as archbishop of Buenos Aires, and had collaborated with
him in joint initiatives, often of a social or charitable nature for
persons or social groups in difficult situations, or in the field of
interreligious dialogue.
Their friendship and spiritual
closeness to the Pope were among the reasons for this initiative; the
pilgrimage, therefore, concluded in Rome, with their meeting with the
Holy Father. They expressed their best wishes for his ministry of
peace and dialogue and for his forthcoming pilgrimage in the Holy
Land. The meeting, which lasted around an hour, took place in a
cordial atmosphere and was attended by Cardinal Kurt Koch, president
of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews,
and Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council
for Interreligious Dialogue.
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