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VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis and Qatar’s Sheikha Moza bint Nasser exchange gifts during a private audience at the Vatican yesterday. — AP

Vatican to digitize Gulf manuscripts

By Kuwait Times

June 04, 2016 | 10:57 p.m EDT

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis and Qatar’s Sheikha Moza bint Nasser exchange gifts during a private audience at the Vatican yesterday. — AP

VATICAN: The Vatican has signed an agreement with Qatar to digitalize Vatican manuscripts relating to the Arabian Gulf and other Islamic regions.

The agreement was signed yesterday following a private papal audience with Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser, the president of the Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development.

The documents are among 8,000 manuscripts in the Vatican Library that are part of a digitalization project. The Vatican said the sheikha met with Pope Francis for 30 minutes, informing him of “the grave situation of schools in the various areas of conflict” She gave the pope a decorated Arabic manuscript of the Gospels produced in 18th Century Ottoman Turkey, while the pope gave her a medallion depicting the olive tree of peace and an Arabic edition of his encyclical on the environment. — AP

June 04, 2016 10:57 PM

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