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L'Osservatore publishes Pope's regrets in Arabic September 18, 2006
The official Vatican newspaper has published an Arabic translation of the Sunday statement by Pope Benedict XVI, expressing his dismay at the misinterpretation of his remarks at the University of Regensburg.
L'Osservatore Romano provided a front-page account of the Pope's remarks at his Angelus audience on September 17. But alongside the usual Italian-language account, the front page carries translations in English, French, and Arabic.
That highly unusual translation indicates the strong desire of the Holy See to engage in the "frank and sincere dialogue" that the Pope called for during his Sunday remarks.
In editions published on September 18 and 19, L'Osservatore Romano also carries news of the murder of Sister Leonella Sgorbita, an Italian nun who was working in Somalia. The Vatican paper indicated that the motives of the killers are not yet known, but there are widespread suspicions that Sister Sgorbita was killed by Muslim zealots who had been inflamed by "interpretations of the Pope's discourse" in Regensburg.
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