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Shaolin monks meet with Pontiff
February 03, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Pope Francis received Buddhist monks from Shaolin Monastery in China on February 1.
The monastery, part of a UNESCO world heritage site, is a center of Zen Buddhism. The meeting followed an interreligious event on meditation hosted by the monks and attended by the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, with whom the Pope signed the Document on Human Fraternity in 2019.
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