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"Francis promotes a Catholic-Muslim boxing match — in Vegas?"
davidgibson.religionnews.com
"The news was slipped in at the end of a Feb. 4 Vatican Radio report on Francis announcing at a meeting with sports stars and students the day before that he was convening a second 'Match for Peace,' an interreligious soccer match aimed at demonstrating 'that we are capable of making peace with a game, with art,' as the pontiff put it.
The May 29 soccer match will be a reprise of the first Match for Peace, played in Rome in 2014. As Catholic News Agency explained, that match featured soccer players representing different religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam and Shintoism.
Coverage of last week’s announcement was understandably focused on the various soccer stars hanging out with the pontiff, such as Ronaldinho and Bryan Ruiz.
But at the end of the Vatican Radio report — which was also printed in L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily — reporter Fausta Speranza noted that along with announcing the “Match for Peace,” the pope also announced that there would be 'a boxing match between a Catholic and a Muslim in Las Vegas on May 7.'"
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