Pope Francis condemned attempts to
use religion to justify terrorism as he addressed Cairo's
Al-Azhar University on Friday. "As religious leaders, we are
called to unmask the violence that masquerades as purported
sanctity and is based more on the "absolutizing" of selfishness
than on authentic openness to the Absolute," he said. "We have
an obligation to denounce violations of human dignity and human
rights, to expose attempts to justify every form of hatred in
the name of religion, and to condemn these attempts as
idolatrous caricatures of God".
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