Pope Francis urged religious leaders to “unmask the violence” masquerading as holy and condemn religiously inspired hatred as an idolatrous caricature of God, during his visit to Egypt last Friday.
“No act of violence can be perpetrated in the name of God, for it would profane his name,” the Pope told Muslim and Christian leaders at a peace conference attended by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople.
The Pope began his two-day visit to Cairo by speaking at a gathering organised by Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, regarded as Sunni Islam’s highest institute of learning.
