IRAN: KHATAMI TO MEET POPE
Tehran, 16 April (AKI) - Former Iranian president Seyyed Mohammad Khatami will travel to Rome on 3 May to meet Pope Benedict XVI. Khatami's visit was initially scheduled to take place earlier last year but was postponed after the controversial speech by the pontiff on 12 September at Germany's Regensburg University interpreted as linking Islam to violence. The protests in the Islamic world sparked by the speech led to the postponement to 3-4 May of the seminar on inter-religious dialogue at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University which the former Iranian president was also scheduled to attend.
The seminar is being organised by the university in cooperation with the Iranian embassy to the Holy See and will be attended by leading clerics and researchers from North African countries, Lebanon and the United States.
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