{"id":43378,"date":"2017-02-22T13:51:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T11:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=43378"},"modified":"2017-02-22T13:51:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T11:51:59","slug":"%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%aa%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%ad-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%86%d8%af%d9%88%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b4%d8%aa%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%b1-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%aa%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%ad-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%86%d8%af%d9%88%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b4%d8%aa%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%b1-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican, Al-Azhar team up to counter religious justification for violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">The Vatican and Al-Azhar University, will be joining forces to discuss how to fight religious extremism that uses God\u2019s name to justify violence. The president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue will travel to Cairo to participate in the special seminar.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">On February 21 the Vatican announced that Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, will travel to Cairo to participate in a special seminar at the Al-Azhar University.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">He will be joined by the council\u2019s secretary, Bishop Miguel \u00c1ngel Ayuso Guixot, and the head of their Office for Islam, Monsignor Khaled Akasheh, to discuss the theme \u201cThe role of al-Azhar al-Sharif and of the Vatican in countering the phenomena of fanaticism, extremism and violence in the name of religion.\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">The meeting will take place \u201con the vigil\u201d of February 24 in honor of Pope Saint John Paul II\u2019s visit to the university on that day in 2000. It will also be attended by the Holy See\u2019s ambassador to Egypt, Archbishop Bruno Musar\u00f2, as well as various representatives from Al-Azhar.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican and Al-Azhar University, will be joining forces to discuss how to fight religious extremism that uses God\u2019s name to justify violence. The president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue will travel to Cairo to participate in the special seminar. On February 21 the Vatican announced that Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":37066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,74],"tags":[3750,7627,7628,7626,5736,6040,816,193,194,7624,950,7625],"class_list":["post-43378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-74","tag-al-azhar","tag-counter","tag-religious-justification","tag-team-up","tag-vatican","tag-violence","tag-816","tag-193","tag-194","tag-7624","tag-950","tag-7625"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43379,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43378\/revisions\/43379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}