Pope Plans Meeting with Muslim Sheik

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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The grand sheik at the highest theological college in the Sunni Muslim world has agreed to meet with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, the Vatican said.

Cardinal Paul Poupard, who leads the Vatican commission on relations with Muslims, went to Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo to meet with Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, grand sheik at the Al-Azhar Mosque, and extended the invitation. It "was accepted with satisfaction," the Vatican said Tuesday.

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Pope Plans Meeting with Muslim Sheik

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