Pope requires Christian-Muslim dialogue in Jakarta | EUROtoday

Pope Francis may hardly have discovered a extra acceptable place for his message of friendship between religions. In the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, the Istiqlal Mosque – with house for 250,000 believers, the most important Muslim place of worship in Southeast Asia – and the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary face one another, separated solely by a busy street. However, a “friendship tunnel” now runs below the street from one web site to the opposite. “It is a telling sign through which these two great places of worship not only 'face' each other, but are also 'connected' to each other,” the Pope mentioned on Thursday throughout a go to to the mosque, two days after his arrival in Indonesia.