Pope Benedict XVI, right, greeting King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the Vatican on Tuesday.Pope Benedict XVI and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia clasped hands at the Vatican on Tuesday in a cordial meeting, the first meeting ever between a pope and the Saudi monarch, who is entrusted to protect Mecca, the birthplace of Muhammad and center of the Islamic world.
The pair met for half an hour, speaking through interpreters, in a conversation that a Vatican press release later said had covered such themes as the "value of collaboration between Christians, Muslims and Jews for promoting peace" and "the necessity of finding a just solution" of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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