The pope told Indonesian leaders that the Catholic Church will help to tamp down extremism by increasing its efforts toward inter-religious dialogue. He spoke at the beginning of an almost two-week trip to Southeast Asia.
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00:00Pope Francis is urging leaders in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority
00:04country, to guard against religious extremism.
00:07In different regions, we see the emergence of violent conflicts that are often the result
00:16of a lack of mutual respect, a lack of tolerance, and a lack of willingness to make their own
00:27interests, their own position, or their own partial historical narrative, even when this
00:34involves suffering without end for the whole of the community, is the result of real and
00:40real bloody wars.
00:44He made the comments in his opening speech on a trip to Southeast Asia.
00:47Now the Pope says the Catholic Church will increase efforts toward inter-religious dialogue
00:52to help reduce extremism.