President Aoun hopes Pope Leo will boost interfaith ties
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, the Arab world’s only Christian head of state, has congratulated newly elected Pope Leo XIV, expressing the hope that he will strengthen interfaith dialogue.
Aoun, elected in January under multi-confessional Lebanon’s power-sharing system, said in a statement from his office that he hoped the new pontiff would "strengthen dialogue between religions and cultures".
Source: Agence France Presse
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