Under the headline, “Vatican threatens to transfer dialogue with Islam to Iran” Al-Liwā’ al-Islāmī on page two quotes Cardinal Peter Turkson of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace as saying “no one can prevent the Pope from expressing his opinion,” adding “dialogue with Islam will not cease” stressing that the dialogue is not limited to Egypt, in reference to Iran. [Reviewer: the paper did not make clear why this was a ‘reference to Iran’ and the report contained nothing further to justify the headline.]

 

The Azhar on Thursday announced it was ‘freezing’ its religious dialogue with the Vatican indefinitely because of statements by Pope Benedict XVI it saw as biased against Islam, the paper said.