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Article: Pope's outreach eases Muslim wariness; In Turkey, Pope Benedict XVI supported Turkey's bid to enter the European Union and visited a key mosque.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
ISTANBUL, TURKEY -- Marshaling all his powers of persuasion, Pope Benedict XVI is marking his visit to Turkey with glowing words about Islam, in a bid to calm widespread Muslim anger over his quoting in September a 14th-century emperor, who held that the prophet Muhammad brought "things only evil and inhuman" to the world.
In a powerful symbolic gesture, Pope Benedict Thursday night visited Istanbul's magnificent Blue Mosque, becoming only the second pope in history to enter a Muslim place of prayer.
Hosted by the Grand Mufti of Istanbul, Imam Mustafa Cagrici, the pontiff took ...