NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI meets Sunday with religious leaders from around the world — Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Zoroastrians — who are gathering for an annual peace conference in the southern Italian city of Naples.
Benedict won't be participating in the three-day conference but timed a one-day visit to Naples to coincide with it. He will meet with the religious leaders ahead of its start, organizers said.
Among those expected to attend are the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams; one of Israel's chief rabbis, Yona Metzger; Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of the world's 250 million Orthodox Christians; several Muslim academics and the political adviser to the Grand Mufti of Lebanon, Sheik Mohammed Rashid Kabbani....
Dr. Steven J. Lawson | 6/23/2017
