{"id":920,"date":"2010-06-07T23:10:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T17:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mohamediqbalp.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/07\/cypriot-muslim-and-pope-embrace-in-un-buffer-zone\/"},"modified":"2010-06-07T23:10:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T17:40:52","slug":"cypriot-muslim-and-pope-embrace-in-un-buffer-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/cypriot-muslim-and-pope-embrace-in-un-buffer-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Cypriot Muslim and Pope  embrace in UN Buffer Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.muslimnews.co.uk\/news\/news.php?article=18140\">The Muslim News<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cyprus\/TRNC:<\/p>\n<p>07-06-2010<\/p>\n<p>NICOSIA, Cyprus,(Zenit.org).- Saturday in Nicosia Benedict, XVI met with an important figure among Cypriot Muslims, Shaykh Nazim al-Qubrusi al-Haqqani, 89, spiritual leader of a Sufi movement, and participant in interreligious dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>The brief meeting took place outside the apostolic nunciature before the Pope went to celebrate Mass in the Church of the Holy Cross.<\/p>\n<p>The two religious leaders met along the &#8220;Green Line,&#8221; the U.N. buffer zone, which, since the Turkish invasion of 1974, divides the Turkish Cypriot community and the Greek Cypriot community.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Vatican Radio report, the Sufi leader lives behind the church in the north of Cyprus, and came to greet the Pontiff. He apologized for sitting down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very old,&#8221; Nazim said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very old, too,&#8221; the Pope responded.<\/p>\n<p>Nazim then presented Benedict XVI with an ornate cane, a plaque inscribed with the Arabic word for peace and a Muslim rosary. The Pontiff, for his part, offered Nazim a medallion. They then embraced in a gesture of fraternal affection.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the meeting Nazim asked Benedict XVI to pray for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will certainly do so,&#8221; the Pope answered. &#8220;Let&#8217;s pray for each other.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Muslim News Cyprus\/TRNC: 07-06-2010 NICOSIA, Cyprus,(Zenit.org).- Saturday in Nicosia Benedict, XVI met with an important figure among Cypriot Muslims, Shaykh Nazim al-Qubrusi al-Haqqani, 89, spiritual leader of a Sufi movement, and participant in interreligious dialogue. The brief meeting took place outside the apostolic nunciature before the Pope went to celebrate Mass in the Church&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/cypriot-muslim-and-pope-embrace-in-un-buffer-zone\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}