Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Jakarta were quite in tune with each other during the Pope's visit to the largest mosque in Southeast Asia. Throughout their meeting, they showed signs of mutual warmth and understanding.
Over the last few years, and above all to counteract messages by groups such as ISIS, the Pope and Muslim leaders have encouraged gestures of peace, dialogue and friendship. The fruit of these initiatives is the document for fraternity signed in Abu Dhabi by Pope Francis and another Muslim leader, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar. It was a symbolic gesture signed in the middle of the Arabian Peninsula.
This document signed in Jakarta has the same symbolic intention: to promote interreligious dialogue starting in the country with the largest number of Muslims in the world.
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