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Pope meets Egypt’s top Islamic cleric in bid to end five-year rift

Reuters

May 24, 2016

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Egypt’s highest Islamic authority, Al Azhar, had cut contact with the Vatican because it felt Francis’s predecessor, Pope Benedict, had repeatedly insulted Islam.

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