Pope prays in Istanbul mosque in new outreach
ISTANBUL (AP) — His head bowed and hands clasped in front of him, Pope Francis stood Saturday for two minutes of silent prayer facing east inside one of Istanbul's most important mosques, as he shifted gears toward more religious affairs on the second leg of his three-day visit to mainly Muslim Turkey.
Following in the footsteps of Pope Benedict XVI who visited Turkey in 2006, Francis prayed alongside the Grand Mufti of Istanbul, Rahmi Yaran, who had his palms turned toward the sky in a Muslim prayer, inside the 17th-century Sultan Ahmet mosque. ...
Hmm, I must have missed all the stories about Muslim leaders reaching out to Christians. The fall of civilizations have many causes, but an excellent source on the the Left's 'march through the institutions of the West' and European man's unique, partly genetically based, extreme individualism that has led to today's fashionable 'pathological altruism' can be found in Kevin MacDonald's 'The Culture of Critique.'
http://news.yahoo.com/pope-visits-iconic-religious-sites-istanbul-073647316.html
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