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Pope invites Muslim envoys to meeting

Pope Benedict XVI has invited ambassadors of Muslim countries at the Vatican, as well as Muslim religious leaders, to a meeting on Monday at his summer palace, a senior Vatican official said on Friday.

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Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST

VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI has invited ambassadors of Muslim countries at the Vatican, as well as Muslim religious leaders, to a meeting on Monday at his summer palace, a senior Vatican official said on Friday.

The Vatican said it would call such a meeting as part of diplomatic efforts to explain to offended Muslims that a speech in Germany last week seen as portraying Islam as violent has been misunderstood.

The meeting is to take place at Castel Gandolfo, outside of Rome, the Ansa agency said.

Italian newspapers have recently mentioned the possibility of such a meeting to allow the Pope to explain his recent controversial remarks.

In a speech made during a visit to his native Germany this month, the leader of the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics quoted a medieval emperor criticising some teachings of the Prophet Mohammed as "evil and inhuman".

It sparked several days of protests in Muslim countries, prompting the pontiff to say he was "deeply sorry" for any offense and attributing Muslim anger over his speech to an "unfortunate misunderstanding."

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