Paus Fransiskus menerima Imam Besar Al-Azhar Sheik Ahmed Muhammad Al-Tayyib di Vatikan.
Radio Vatikan memberitakan bahwa pada hari senin (23/5/16) Paus Fransiskus menerima Imam besar Al-Azhar, Sheik Ahmed Muhammad Al-Tayyib.
Direktur Kantor Berita Vatikan Pater Federico Lombardi SJ mengatakan bahwa pertemuan sekitar 30 menit itu “penuh persahabatan”. Imam besar Mesir didampingi oleh delegasi penting, seperti: Dr. Abbas Shouman, Wakil Al-Azhar; Dr. Mahmaoud Hamdi Zakzouk, anggota Dewan Ulama Senior Al-Azhar dan Direktur Pusat Dialog Al-Azhar; Hakim Mohamed Mahmoud Abdel Salam, penasihat Imam besar; Dr. Mohie Afifi Afifi Ahmed, sekretaris jenderal Akademi Penelitian Islam; Duta Besar Mahmoud Abdel Gawad, Penasehat Diplomatik ; Mr. Tamer Tawfik, dan Mr Ahmad Alshourbagy, Sekretaris Kedua. Delegasi didampingi oleh Duta Besar Republik Mesir untuk Tahta Suci, Mr. Hatem Seif Elnasr.
Pater Lombardi menyatakan bahwa Pertemuan Paus dan Imam besar Mesir ini dalam rangka silahturahmi dan dialog antara Gereja Katolik dan Islam.Keduanya membahas tentang komitmen bersama baik dari pemerintah maupun setiap agama besar untuk perdamaian di dunia, penolakan kekerasan dan terorisme, situasi umat Kristen dalam konteks konflik dan ketegangan di Timur Tengah dan perlindungan terhadap mereka (sumber Vatican Radio – English Section, translated by Daniel B. Kotan)
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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received in audience in the Vatican on Monday the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheik Ahmed Muhammad Al-Tayyib.
In a note, the Director of the Vatican Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi SJ. said the approximately 30 minute meeting was “very cordial” and that the Grand Imam of Egypt “was accompanied by an important delegation, which included: Dr. Abbas Shouman, Undersecretary of Al-Azhar; Dr. Mahmaoud Hamdi Zakzouk, member of the Council of Senior Scholars of Al-Azhar University and Director of the Center for Dialogue of Al-Azhar; Judge Mohamed Mahmoud Abdel Salam, Advisor to the Great Imam; Dr. Mohie Afifi Afifi Ahmed, secretary-general of the Islamic Research Academy; Ambassador Mahmoud Abdel Gawad, Diplomatic Advisor to the Grand Imam; Mr. Tamer Tawfik, Advisor; and Mr Ahmad Alshourbagy, Second Secretary. The delegation was accompanied by the Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the Holy See, Mr. Hatem Seif Elnasr.
Upon his arrival in the Vatican, the Grand Imam was welcomed, and then accompanied to his audience with the Pope, by the President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Card. Jean-Louis Tauran, and by the Secretary of the same dicastery, Bishop Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot.
Fr. Lombardi further states that the Pope and Grand Imam noted “the great significance of this new meeting in the framework of dialogue between the Catholic Church and Islam.” The two then mainly “discussed the common commitment of the authorities and the faithful of the great religions for peace in the world, the rejection of violence and terrorism, the situation of Christians in the context of conflicts and tensions in the Middle East and their protection.”
During the meeting, Pope Francis gave the Grand Imam the Medallion of the olive tree of peace and a copy of his Encyclical Letter Laudato si’.
Following his audience with the Holy Father, the Grand Imam and his delegation met briefly with Cardinal Tauran and Bishop Guixot Ayuso in another audience hall in the Apostolic Palace.
Sumber artikel dan gambar: radiovaticana.va/news/2016/05/23
