On November 14, Pope Francis will meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the Vatican. It will be the first time a pope has met with a head of the Islamic Republic since Pope St. John Paul II received President Mohamed Khatami at the Vatican on March 11, 1999.
The encounter between the two leaders will take place while Rouhani is in Italy ahead of a visit to Paris and just weeks after Pope Francis’ General Audience of October 28, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the promulgation of Nostra Aetate. That document from the Second Vatican Council concerns the Church and non-Christian religions, and it opened a new chapter in the history of relations between Muslims and Catholics.
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