Tag: . Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb

• Tuesday, May 24th 2016 - 05:25 UTC

  Francis resumes dialogue in the Vatican with the higherst authority of Sunni Islam

  

  Francis has met the grand imam of Cairo's al-Azhar mosque after a five-year pause in dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the mosque, the highest authority of Sunni Islam. Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb visited the Vatican en route to a Paris conference involving Muslims and Catholics.