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Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, a Spanish-born prelate and prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, died today aged 72 after a long illness.
Pope Francis asked for prayers for the cardinal earlier this morning, telling an international Jain delegation at the Vatican that the cardinal was “very ill, near the end of his life.”
A respected expert in Islam, Ayuso devoted much of his career to promoting dialogue with the Muslim religion and played a key role in Pope Francis’ “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” signed in Abu Dhabi in 2019.
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Pope Francis asked for prayers for the cardinal earlier this morning, telling an international Jain delegation at the Vatican that the cardinal was “very ill, near the end of his life.”
A respected expert in Islam, Ayuso devoted much of his career to promoting dialogue with the Muslim religion and played a key role in Pope Francis’ “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” signed in Abu Dhabi in 2019.
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Cardinal Ayuso Guixot, advocate for faith dialogue, dies at 72
A respected expert in Islam, the Spanish prelate devoted much of his career to promoting dialogue with the Muslim religion and played a key role in the “Document on Human Fraternity.”
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