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Tells ZENIT that ‘to Celebrate the 1st Ever Public Mass in UAE Is a Gift to the Catholic Community’ --
Bishop Paul Hinder has no doubt: “Whether it is Christians among Muslim or Muslims among Christians, we have to

learn to live in harmony with one another,” he says, looking forward to Pope Francis’ next international trip to the United Arab Emirates, Feb. 3-5, 2019, a small country on the Arabian Peninsula, where Catholics are generally small minorities everywhere. It is not the first visit of Francis to an Islamic country, after his travels to Turkey, Bosnia, Azerbaijan, Egypt and Bangladesh. But the announcement of this trip, as Bishop Hinder confirms, took everyone by surprise.
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