MANAMA, Bahrain - Pope Francis said on Sunday that 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 papal visit to the island nation, Francis visited the Sacred Heart church in Manama and urged Catholics to be “tireless promoters of dialogue” with other faiths.
Rights groups have long cited discrimination, repression and harassment by Bahrain’s Sunni Muslim rulers against Shi’ite opposition figures and activists. Finance Minister Sheikh Salman bin Khalifa Al-Khalifa told Agence France-Presse news agency that Bahrain had “robust and wide-ranging human rights and criminal justice protections”, and that the Pope’s comment on the death penalty had not singled out Bahrain.
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