Pope Francis will meet Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's highest Shiite authority, during his visit to the country in early March, Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako told AFP on Thursday.
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During this "
private meeting
", the two religious dignitaries "
will be able to evoke a kind of framework to condemn all those who attack life
", specified Cardinal Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq.
In February 2019 in Abu Dhabi, Pope Francis signed with Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of the Cairo-based institution of Sunni Islam Al-Azhar, a “
document on human brotherhood
” in Abu Dhabi. Pope Francis was then the first head of the Catholic Church to set foot on the soil of the Arabian Peninsula which was the cradle of Islam.