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Pope Francis visits Indonesia’s Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta for an interreligious meeting where he pays tribute to the people’s “great gift” of working for dialogue, mutual respect, and harmonious coexistence to which we are all called. Pope Francis began the third day of his apostolic journey to Asia and Oceania on Thursday morning 5 September by visiting the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, for an interreligious meeting in southeast Asia’s largest Mosque.
In his address, Pope Francis thanked the Grand Imam for his warmth and hospitality, and for reminding everyone how this place of worship and prayer is “a great house for humanity” where people can take time to remember the “yearning for the infinite” that we carry in our hearts and the need “to seek an encounter with the divine and experience the joy of friendship with others.
The Pope went on to emphasize that by looking deeper at our lives, we can appreciate that in light of the common “thirst for the infinite” we can discover how we are all brothers and sisters, “all pilgrims, all on our way to God, beyond what differentiates us.
“If it is true that you are home to the world’s largest gold mine, know that the most precious treasure is the determination that differences can be harmonized through concord and mutual respect instead of being a cause for conflict…May everyone instead be awestruck by the dream of a free, fraternal and peaceful society and humanity!”
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