VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will journey to Bahrain in November to press his message of dialogue with the Muslim world, the primary pope to go to the nation the Vatican stated Wednesday.
Bahrain is residence to the Gulf’s first Catholic Church, situated within the capital Manama, in addition to its greatest one, Our Woman of Arabia Cathedral, which opened final yr within the desert city of Awali.
Francis is because of go to each cities in the course of the Nov. 3-6 go to. The Vatican stated he’ll participate in a convention referred to as the “Bahrain Discussion board for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence.”
Francis, 85, has made dialogue with the Muslim world an indicator of his papacy. He lately returned from a go to to majority Muslim Kazakhstan, the place he took half in an interfaith summit.
In 2019, Francis grew to become the primary pope to go to the Gulf with a visit to Abu Dhabi. There he signed a landmark doc with the chief imam of the al-Azhar in Cairo, the seat of Sunni studying, pledging Catholic-Muslim cooperation to work for peace.