A successful meeting

The Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue announces that Bishop Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, Secretary of the Dicastery, along with Archbishop Bruno Musarò, Apostolic Nuncio in Egypt, met on Wednesday of this week with Doctor Kamal Abd al-Salam, a member of the Al-Azhar Centre for Dialogue.  Doctor al-Salam was representing Doctor Mahmoud Hamdi Zakzouk and Professor Mohey El-Din Afifi Ahmed, Secretary of the Al-Azhar Islamic Research Complex.

They were all subsequently received by the Wakil of Al-Azhar, Doctor Abbas Shouman, with whom a fruitful meeting was held.

After conveying the Pope’s greetings and good wishes, Bishop Guixot discussed the terms and methods of a further meeting to mark the resumption of dialogue between the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue and Al-Azhar University.

The meeting, which took place in an atmosphere of great cordiality, brought to light the importance of sincere and fruitful dialogue between the Dicastery and that important Sunnite institution, and of collaboration that has the good of humanity at heart and strengthens the bonds between Christians and Muslims.