
The Diocese of Rome has announced a formal interfaith dialogue event at the Great Mosque of Rome on May 7, 2026, co-organized with the Islamic Cultural Center of Italy and framed as a continuation of papal ecumenism under Popes Francis and Leo XIV. This deepening institutional embrace of interfaith unity — including a sitting pope engaging in silent prayer at a mosque and calling it 'a place proper to God' — aligns with biblical warnings of a coming false religious system that unites faiths under a banner of peace apart from Christ. Scripture warns of a great apostasy and false prophets in the last days who will draw many away from sound doctrine, as foretold in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and 2 Timothy 4:3-4.