Pope Urges Dialogue To Counter Religious Extremism

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The pope told Indonesian leaders that the Catholic Church will help to tamp down extremism by increasing its efforts toward inter-religious dialogue. He spoke at the beginning of an almost two-week trip to Southeast Asia.

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00:00Pope Francis is urging leaders in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority

00:04country, to guard against religious extremism.

00:07In different regions, we see the emergence of violent conflicts that are often the result

00:16of a lack of mutual respect, a lack of tolerance, and a lack of willingness to make their own

00:27interests, their own position, or their own partial historical narrative, even when this

00:34involves suffering without end for the whole of the community, is the result of real and

00:40real bloody wars.

00:44He made the comments in his opening speech on a trip to Southeast Asia.

00:47Now the Pope says the Catholic Church will increase efforts toward inter-religious dialogue

00:52to help reduce extremism.

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