Visiting UAE, pope urges equal citizenship rights in Middle East

Pope Francis calls for equal citizenship rights and religious freedom in the Middle East during the first visit by the head of the Catholic church to the Arabian Peninsula.

“I look forward to societies where people of different beliefs have the same right of citizenship and where only in the case of violence in any of its forms is that right removed,” he tells an inter-faith meeting in Abu Dhabi.

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