{"id":21685,"date":"2017-03-28T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T10:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=21685"},"modified":"2017-04-06T07:38:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T07:38:40","slug":"pope-will-visit-egypt-april-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/03\/28\/pope-will-visit-egypt-april-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope will visit Egypt in April &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Pope will visit Egypt in April<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Pope Francis\u2019 first international trip this year will be to Cairo, Egypt on 28-29 April. The visit is in response to an invitation from His Holiness Pope Tawadros II and the Grand Imam of the Mosque of al Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayyib, as well as Egypt&#8217;s president\u00a0 Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and the bishops of the local Catholic Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Al Tayyeb, who occupies a prestigious place in the Sunni Muslim world, visited the Vatican in May 2016. His meeting with Pope Francis marked a major step in thawing relations between the al-Azhar institution and the Holy See. Relations had been strained since 2011 when Pope Benedict XVI was accused of \u201cinterfering\u201d in Egypt\u2019s internal affairs by condemning a bomb attack on a church in Alexandria during the Coptic Christmas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The full program for the Pope&#8217;s trip has not yet been confirmed. However, Francis will almost certainly visit Al-Azhar University in Cairo, which has recently embarked on discussions with the Vatican on how to combat religious justification for violence in Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Persecution of Christians has long been an issue in the country. Twenty-nine Christians were killed in a bombing at St. Mark\u2019s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo in December. Islamic State said it carried out the bombing and released a video threatening to target Christian \u201ccrusaders\u201d in Egypt. Hundreds of Christians recently fled their homes in the Sinai region in the north of the country following a serious of local killings. There have been 40 reported murders of Christians in Egypt in the last three months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The Pope\u2019s trip will likely focus largely on inter-faith dialogue and Catholic-Muslim relations \u2013 especially in combating Christian persecution \u2013 continuing dialogue from a seminar Vatican officials attended in February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Last October the Vatican announced that the Holy See and the Al-Azhar Mosque and adjunct University will officially resume dialogue sometime this spring. Francis\u2019 April visit to the University in Cairo will likely mark the official resumption of this dialogue.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope will visit Egypt in April &nbsp; Pope Francis\u2019 first international trip this year will be to Cairo, Egypt on 28-29 April. 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