Pope Francis' first Africa trip will highlight the
problems of building dialogue between Christianity and Islam as both religions
grow fast on the continent, threatening to widen an already volatile fault line
there between them.
The three countries on the pope's Nov. 25-30 itinerary -
Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic - have been scarred by radical
Islamist attacks or Muslim-Christian sectarian strife and security concerns
have meant the trip has been kept relatively short.
With the backdrop, too, of the bloody attacks by Islamist
militants in France and Mali, the pope's top advisers readily acknowledge the
difficulties of conducting dialogue between Catholics and other Christian
churches and Muslims.
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