Tens of thousands of Catholics and several thousand Muslims have attended an unprecedented public celebration of Mass by Pope Francis, the first pontiff in history to visit the Arabian Peninsula. Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb -imam of Cairo's Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's prestigious seat of learning -greeted the pope with an embrace on Sunday night.
More than 120,000 worshippers packed Zayed Sports City stadium and its surroundings in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, to see the Pope, who is in the Gulf country to promote inter-faith dialogue.
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