Pope John Paul cited Kazakh poet and scholar Abay Qunanbay during his visit to Kazakhstan. Quoting in Kazakh, the pope said that “the human being finds love at the very bottom of his heart, and that is the Lord Almighty's deed.”The pope spoke to thousands of people at an open-air mass in the capital Astana. He spoke of the "logic of love" that could bring together the two faiths and said that religion should not be a reason for conflict.He was also the first pope to kiss the Koran. The event took place in the Vatican in 1999 during a visit by an Iraqi delegation.And John Paul was also the first pope to enter a mosque, the 1,300-year-old Umayyad mosque in the Syrian capital of Damascus in May 2001.Islamic clerics and scholars have recognized John Paul’s significant efforts in promoting dialogue between Islam and Christianity.Sheikh Fawzi Zafzaaf heads a university committee on inter-religious dialogue at Egypt's Al Azhar University, a prominent Sunni Islam school. Zafzaaf says that the pope was a force for change:“There is no doubt that the holy pope, since assuming the guardianship of the Vatican, has established [a policy of] openness toward the world," Zafzaaf says. "I think he is probably the first pope to visit several countries with the purpose of developing relations between the people of those countries and the Vatican. He grew close to other religions, and encouraged dialogue between Catholic Christianity and Islam.”
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There is no justification in this document for a supposed follower of Jesus kissing a book that declares his crucifixion and resurrection as lies. That act only reveals with pictorial clarity the spiritual state of the organization that the man represented. I am a peace knowing that anyone who is in doubt but has a heart for the truth of Jesus will see this picture and know in their heart that what they are seeing is an evil act and a clear betrayel of Jesus.
So, you see, my brother, the former Pope understands about the power of love. After all, through our dialogues with the Eastern Orthodox Churches, we have been able to bring back some of them into the Catholic Churches. When one shows love and respect to other religions, in time, we will win converts.
Save them from a snare and lead them to fall into a pit.
Didn't you know that St. Paul was able to win the hearts of the pagan Gentiles in the same way? After all, St. Paul called the pagans of Athens "children of God."Peace be with you,Diana
He never bowed down and kissed their idols. In fact when an ocasion came when the locals thought He had something to do with their false Gods His reaction was definite and clear.
Acts 148 And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked. 9 This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, 10 said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And he leaped and walked. 11 Now when the people saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!” 12 And Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker. 13 Then the priest of Zeus, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, intending to sacrifice with the multitudes.
14 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, they tore their clothes and ran in among the multitude, crying out 15 and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them, 16 who in bygone generations allowed all nations to walk in their own ways. 17 Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.” 18 And with these sayings they could scarcely restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them.All Praise The Ancient Of Days