Saudi Arabia and Vatican work together for Peace. For the first time a Saudi monarch has met the Pope. True, it’s not King Abdullah Al-Saud’s first visit to the Vatican – he was here in 1999, as his …More
Saudi Arabia and Vatican work together for Peace.
For the first time a Saudi monarch has met the Pope. True, it’s not King Abdullah Al-Saud’s first visit to the Vatican – he was here in 1999, as his country’s heir apparent. But now he has met the Pope as King of Saudi Arabia, and as the official guardian of Islam’s two holiest shrines: Mecca and Medina.
For the first time a Saudi monarch has met the Pope. True, it’s not King Abdullah Al-Saud’s first visit to the Vatican – he was here in 1999, as his country’s heir apparent. But now he has met the Pope as King of Saudi Arabia, and as the official guardian of Islam’s two holiest shrines: Mecca and Medina.