The Vatican launched the brand for Pope Francis’ Apostolic Journey to Morocco, whose theme is hope. “Servant of Hope” is the theme of the Pope’s go to to Morocco on March 30-31.
The pope’s new brand exhibits a New Age fashion cross that’s encircled about with the crescent moon of Islam, with the colours of yellow and white for the Vatican, and pink and inexperienced for Islam. That, my buddies, is just not solely the pope’s new brand, it’s going to additionally function the official brand for Chrislam.
FROM VATICAN NEWS: The Holy Father is making the Apostolic Visit in response to the invitation of King Mohammed VI and the Bishops of the nation. The journey to the Muslim-majority nation contains the cities of Rabat and Casablanca, and would be the Pope’s 26th outdoors Italy.
Logo design
The official brand of the Pope’s go to was chosen from about 50 entries in a contest. An explanatory be aware accompanying the brand’s launch says {that a} cross and a crescent within the brand are symbols of Christianity and Islam which spotlight the interreligious relations between Christians and Muslims.
In reality, in the course of the 2-day journey, Pope Francis will meet the chief of Moroccan Muslims, 800 years after the assembly between St. Francis of Assisi and Sultan Al-Malik al-Kāmil of Egypt.
The brand has the colours of the 2 international locations: inexperienced and pink for Morocco, yellow and white (background) for the Vatican.
Under Pope Francis’ identify is the motto of the go to: “Servant of Hope” as a result of the Pope is understood because the Servant of the Servants of God. The motto can also be the title of the pastoral letter that the Regional Episcopal Conference of North Africa (identified by its French acronym CERNA) gave to Pope Francis throughout its final ‘ad limina ’ go to to Rome in 2015.
“Morocco” is written in Arabic to honour the nation that’s internet hosting the Pope.
Prior to the Morocco go to, the Pope is scheduled to make a visit to the United Arab Emirates on February 3-5.