Pope prays for 'suffering peoples' on final day in Gulf

said Sunday he was praying for “suffering peoples of the Middle East”, at the end of a Bahrain visit promoting dialogue with Islam but marked by accusations of rights abuses in the Gulf state.

The 85-year-old Argentinian used his four-day visit to Muslim-majority Bahrain to meet both senior Muslim officials and Catholic residents of the Gulf, home to a large migrant labourer community. On Sunday, the final morning of the first ever papal visit to the island nation, Francis visited Sacred Heart church in Manama and urged Catholics to be “tireless promoters of dialogue” with other faiths.“Let us seek to be guardians and builders of unity... in the multi-religious and multi-cultural societies in which we find ourselves,“ he said, at the Gulf’s oldest church which opened in 1939.

Human Rights Watch has accused Bahraini courts of issuing death sentences based on “manifestly unfair trials”. This was the pontiff's second trip to the Gulf following a 2019 visit to the United Arab Emirates. He met in Bahrain with Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Cairo's prestigious Al-Azhar mosque.

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