Pope Francis has told worshippers in a mosque in the Central African Republic that "Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters".
Image copyrightAFPImage captionPope Francis said Christians and Muslims should turn their back on revenge and hatred
He was speaking to Muslims who had sought shelter in the capital Bangui after nearly three years of violence between Christians and Muslims.
The mosque visit was seen as perhaps the most difficult part of his Africa tour, a BBC correspondent says
Pope Francis then held the final Mass of his Africa trip in Bangui.
More than 100,000 Muslims left the capital as a result of the fighting but 15,000 are left in an area called PK5, according to the campaign group Human Rights Watch.
Imam Tidiani Moussa Naibi thanked the Pope for his visit and said it was "a symbol which we all understand", the AP news agency reports.
On Sunday, the Pope called on fighting factions in the CAR to lay down their weapons.
About half of CAR's population is Christian and 15% are Muslim.
Image copyrightAPImage captionThe Pope was welcomed to the mosque by Imam Tidiane Moussa NaibiImage copyrightAPImage captionChildren waited to greet Pope Francis at the mosque in BanguiImage copyrightReutersImage captionCrowds turned out to see the Pope as he drove into the PK5 neighbourhood
Celebrating Mass in Bangui, he said they should instead arm themselves "with justice, love, mercy and authentic peace".
Earlier, he said he hoped next month's election in the CAR would open a "new chapter" for the country.
The trip to the CAR is the pontiff's first visit to a conflict zone and the final stop on his three-nation African tour that also took in Kenya and Uganda.
Conflict has blighted the CAR for decades but it was only in 2013 that the fighting took on a religious form.
President Francois Bozize was ousted in a coup in March 2013 and a group of mostly Muslim rebels from the north, the Seleka, marched on Bangui, briefly taking control of the country.
Their rebellion tapped into a feeling northerners had of being excluded and unrepresented by the central government, correspondents say.
They targeted churches and Christian communities, which triggered the creation of the anti-Balaka - meaning anti-violence - militias, and led to a downward spiral of tit-for-tat violence which continues.
Towns and villages are divided, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced into camps divided along religious lines.
Turkey's president has said he is "saddened" by the downing of a Russian combat jet by Turkish forces on the Syrian border last Tuesday.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he wished the incident had not happened and hoped it would not happen again. He has so far refused to apologise to Russia, accusing Moscow of "playing with fire" in its Syria operations. The president's remarks came as Turkey warned its citizens against non-essential travel to Russia. The Foreign Ministry said visits should be avoided "until the situation becomes clear", citing problems such as anti-Turkish demonstrations outside the country's embassy in Moscow.
On Friday Russia suspended its visa-free arrangement with Turkey and is planning to introduce a wide range of economic sanctions.Mr Erdogan has asked for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but Mr Putin wants an apology from Turkey before he will agree to talks.
The Turkish president again defended the incident and criticised Russia's operations in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad, whom Ankara opposes.
But he renewed his call for a meeting with Mr Putin on the sidelines of the Paris Climate talks next week, saying that both sides should approach the issue more positively.
"We wish it hadn't happened, but it happened," he said, quoted by the Associated Press. "I hope something like this doesn't happen again."Mr Erdogan was addressing supporters in Balikesir, western Turkey, following the murder of a senior Kurdish lawyer, Tahir Elci, in the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir earlier on Saturday.Mr Elci was shot dead by an unknown gunman as he called for an end to violence between Turkey and the Kurdish rebel PKK group, which resumed in July.
Image copyrightAPImage captionThe S-400, Russia's most advanced missile defence system, will provide cover for its aircraft in Syria
Russia has sent troops and aircraft to Syria to back up the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad in the civil war.Turkey, which is a member of Nato and of a US-led coalition in the region, insists Mr Assad must step down before any political solution to the Syrian conflict is found.Both countries say they are trying to rid the region of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, which claimed the recent attacks on Paris, Ankara and also on a Russian airliner. And on Friday Russia said it had strengthened its anti-aircraft defences by moving a cruiser towards the coast and deploying new missiles at its main base.
Image copyrightAPImage captionAnti-Putin demonstrators turned out in Istanbul on Friday
The Moskva cruiser's long-range air defence system will provide cover for Russian aircraft, as will the S-400 missiles which arrived on Thursday.Turkey says the Russian plane had intruded into its airspace and ignored warnings to leave. Moscow maintains that the downed SU-24 fighter jet was downed by a missile fired from a Turkish jet inside Syria.
Mr Putin has also firmly rejected any suggestion Turkey did not recognise the plane as Russian. He said it was easily identifiable and its co-ordinates had been passed on to Turkey's ally, the US.
Russia on Thursday said it was drafting a wide-ranging list of economic sanctions against Turkey that would hit food imports and joint investment projects among other things. Turkey and Russia have important economic links. Russia is Turkey's second-largest trading partner, while more than three million Russian tourists visited Turkey last year.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has written to 50,000 junior doctors in England outlining plans he says would lead to basic pay increasing by 11%.
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But he wants to curb other elements including guaranteed pay rises.
The British Medical Association said it had not seen the proposals. It is preparing to send ballot papers out on Thursday ahead of possible industrial action in a fraught pay dispute.
Mr Hunt says just 1% of NHS junior doctors would lose out under his plans.
'Salaries protected'
The health secretary's proposed rise to basic pay would see a new doctors' salary rise from £22,636 to £25,500.
But guaranteed annual pay rises are being scrapped and instead pay will be directly linked to progress through dedicated training stages.
Mr Hunt said the changes would mean three-quarters of junior doctors will get pay rises, while most of the rest will see their salaries protected.
The government said the doctors who lose out are the ones who work extra hours and therefore are entitled to extra payments.
Thousands of doctors have taken to the streets in recent weeks to protest about the contract offer, which they say could put patient safety at risk because of longer hours and lead to pay cuts of up to 15% for some.
The details being sent out by Mr Hunt to medical schools include a concession on what constitutes unsociable hours.
Analysis
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The timing of this letter - the day before the ballot opens - is no coincidence. Mr Hunt has provided more detail on the contract plus some concessions in an attempt to get junior doctors to step back from the brink.
Union leaders and many others in the medical profession will now spend the next few days poring over the details.
The 11% basic pay rise seems attractive, but that is tempered by the plan to end guaranteed annual pay rises and curbing what constitutes anti-social hours.
And while the pledge that only 1% of doctors will lose out may seem positive on paper, those in the profession worry that that figure could increase in years to come as the full impact of the changes filters through the system.
The ballot closes in two weeks. We won't have to wait long for a verdict on the health secretary's latest salvo in this long-running dispute.
The original plan included classing Saturday working from 7am to 10pm as normal hours, but that has now been reduced to 7am to 7pm. Currently the whole weekend is classed as anti-social working and therefore attracts extra payments.
The deal is due to come in next August with ministers warning they will impose it if need be.
The Care Quality Commission is also being asked to monitor how many hours junior doctors are doing as part of its inspection regime to make sure trusts are not overworking medics.
'Varying percentages'
Mr Hunt said: "I appeal to the BMA to do the right thing and come back to the table to negotiate for its members."
Dr Johann Malawana, the BMA's junior doctors leader, told BBC Breakfast: "I haven't actually seen the proposals because it's all been released via the media overnight."
He added: "Throughout the last month or so the government has had varying different percentages that they claim that they are going to increase basic pay by. And every time we have seen the detail of this, it's unravelled."
Scotland and Wales have said they do not want to introduce the changes, while Northern Ireland has yet to make a decision.
Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Singapore on Saturday - the first ever meeting between leaders of the two sides.
Image copyrightAFPImage captionXi Jinping (left) and Ma Ying-jeou will discuss stronger ties, Taiwan says
Both said the talks would focus on relations across the Taiwan Straits.
China has claimed sovereignty over Taiwan since 1949, when the Nationalist government fled to the island after defeat by the Communists.
However, ties have improved since President Ma took office in 2008.
The Chinese government threatens to use military force against Taiwan if it attempts to gain outright independence.
Taiwanese spokesman Chen Yi-hsin said President Ma's aim was "to promote peace cross the Taiwan Strait and maintain status quo".
Analysis: Cindy Sui, BBC News, Taipei
This meeting, less than three months before Taiwan's elections, is a sign of how concerned China is that the significantly improved ties of recent years could be jeopardised if the pro-independence opposition party's candidate becomes president. Opinion polls show Tsai Ing-wen is leading - a big worry for Beijing.
Ms Tsai has said she welcomes dialogue with Chinese leaders, but Beijing has refused to meet her, indicating it does not trust her.
She was a minister in charge of developing policy toward mainland China under the previous administration, which angered Beijing by trying to work towards formal independence.
Mr Xi may believe he can sway Taiwanese voters but this could backfire. While some voters who want to maintain stable relations may heed his words, they may offend Taiwanese voters who are already worried that Beijing will have increasing influence over Taiwan if the candidate from President Ma's party is elected.
And this could hurt, rather than help, the party favoured by Beijing.
The two leaders are expected to handle the meeting in a delicate manner. Mr Ma's office has emphasised no agreements will be signed and no joint statement will be issued.
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage captionThousands of Taiwanese students protested in 2014 against a trade agreement with China
"No agreement will be signed, and no statement issued," he said, adding that Mr Ma would hold a news conference on Thursday to explain his decision to hold the talks.
Taiwan's mainland affairs council is also to hold a news conference on the meeting later on Wednesday, officials said.
China's official Xinhua news said the two sides would "exchange views on promoting the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations".
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the US welcomed any steps to reduce tensions and improve relations, but added: "We'll have to see what actually comes out of the meeting."
The BBC's John Sudworth in Beijing says Saturday's meeting will mark a significant break with the long established diplomatic stance.
Contact of any kind between the two sides has been extremely limited and China has resisted anything that might be seen to be giving Taiwan equal status, he says.
In a sign of how politically sensitive the meeting is, the leaders will address each other as Mr Xi and Mr Ma, rather than president, one Chinese government official has said.
Ties with China have improved under President Ma, whose Kuomintang (KMT) party is seen as pro-Beijing.
Taiwan-China key dates
1949: Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang (KMT) nationalists form their own government in Taiwan after Mao Zedong's communists take power in Beijing
1971: Taiwan loses its seat at the UN to China
1979: The US establishes diplomatic relations with China while at the same time committing itself to defending Taiwan
1993: First direct talks between the two sides take place in Singapore
2005: Beijing brings in a law that makes secession by Taiwan illegal, at the risk of military action
2008: High-level talks between the two sides resume after Ma Ying-jeou is elected president
In July 2009 the two leaders exchanged direct messages for the first time in more than 60 years, albeit in their respective party functions, and not as national leaders.
A year later, the two countries signed a historic trade pact.
However, correspondents say growing fears over China's influence has led to widespread dissatisfaction in Taiwan.
The KMT suffered a crushing defeat in local elections last year, a result that was widely seen as a rejection of President Ma's push for closer ties with China.
President Ma steps down next year having served two terms and earlier this month the KMT dropped its candidate for January's presidential election following a series of poor ratings in opinion polls.
Analysts say China is likely to see a meeting between the two leaders as a final chance to press its case for improved ties, in case the KMT loses the election.
China has insisted that countries cannot have official relations with both China and Taiwan, with the result that Taiwan has formal diplomatic ties with only 21 UN member states.
Taiwan also has no seat at the UN, having lost it to China in 1971. Repeated attempts to regain representation at the UN have been blocked.
Thousands of people have died in recent years in stampedes, many of them at religious festivals. Here are some of the most deadly:
Image copyrightAFPImage captionThere have been several stampedes in the past two decades in Mina during the Hajj pilgrimage
24 September 2015, Mina, Saudi Arabia
More than 700 people taking part in the annual Hajj pilgrimage die in a stampede near Mecca. Two million people had converged on Mina to throw stones at pillars representing the devil in the Hajj's last major rite. Some 450 people were injured.
14 October 2013, Madhya Pradesh, India
At least 115 people die in a stampede near the Ratangarh temple after panic broke out on a bridge. Hundreds of thousands had gathered for the Hindu festival of Navatri.
14 January 2011, Kerala, India
More than 102 pilgrims are crushed to death while returning from the Hindu shrine of Sabarimala. The shrine is in a remote, mountainous, area of dense forests.
22 November 2010, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
More than 375 people die in a stampede on a bridge on the Tonle Sap river during celebrations of the annual Water Festival. Prime Minister Hun Sen described the stampede as the "biggest tragedy" to hit Cambodia since the Khmer Rouge.
30 September 2008, Rajasthan, India
More than 220 people die in a stampede at the Chamunda Devi Hindu temple inside Jodhpur's famous Mehrangarh Fort.
3 August 2008, Himachal Pradesh, India
At least 140 people die in a stampede at a hilltop Hindu temple in northern India. A rain shelter on a mountain path to the Nainadevi temple collapsed in bad weather, causing panic. Dozens more pilgrims were hurt.
12 January 2006, Mina, Saudi Arabia
At least 364 die in a crush during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Officials say the stampede happened after pieces of luggage spilled from moving buses in front of one of the entrances to the bridge of Jamarat, causing pilgrims to trip.
31 August 2005, Baghdad, Iraq
Up to 1,000 Shia pilgrims are trampled to death or drown in the Tigris River after rumours of a suicide bombing sparked panic. Many of the dead are women and children.
25 January 2005, Maharashtra, India
Up to 300 Hindu pilgrims die in a stampede during a Hindu pilgrimage to the remote Mandhar Devi temple. Many pilgrims are crushed and burned to death as fires in roadside stalls force crowds into a narrow stairway leading to the hilltop temple.
1 February 2004, Mina, Saudi Arabia
Some 251 pilgrims are trampled to death in a 27-minute stampede during the Hajj. Officials say many of the victims were not authorised to participate in the Stoning of Satan ritual, after new procedures were introduced following previous stampedes.
9 May 2001, Accra, Ghana
Some 126 die at the Accra Sports Stadium after a match between rival teams Accra Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko. The Ghanaian police are blamed by many survivors for causing the stampede by firing tear gas in the packed and locked stadium, after angry demonstrations by fans of the losing side.
9 April 1998, Mina, Saudi Arabia
At least 118 pilgrims die and more than 180 are hurt during the Stoning of Satan ritual. The pilgrims, mostly from Indonesia and Malaysia, are trampled to death after panic erupts when several people fall off an overpass.
2 July 1990, Saudi Arabia
Some 1,426 pilgrims, mostly Malaysians and Indonesians, die in a huge crush in a tunnel leading to Mecca's holy sites. The authorities say most died of asphyxiation after the tunnel's ventilation system broke down.
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