Mullah-run Majlis Speaker Attends Pope’s Memorial Service in Tehran
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Apr 9, 2005, 17:32
Iran’s mullah-run majlis speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel known as
“Gholam Shire’i” in majlis, attended a memorial service held for
late Pope John Paul II here on Friday at Tehran’s St. Joseph Church,
IRNA reported.
In the ceremony, held by Tehran’s Assyrian Catholics, religious
authorities of the Iranian Armenian, Assyrians, Jews, Armenian deputies
in Majlis, military attache of Italy’s Embassy in Tehran and Tehrani
Catholic citizens paid tribute to the late pontiff.
In a brief interview with the reporters, Gholam Shire’i said that
the world today needs peace and justice more than anything else,
notifying that the real basis for peace and justice is believing in
God and the Resurrection Day.
He also said that that basis is common among followers of all
monotheist religions and that consolidations among followers of
various true religions would lead to prevalence of peace, justice
and freedom throughout the world.
Concerning the character of the late Pope John Paul II, the world
Catholics’ leader, Haddad Adel reminded “We respect his grave efforts
aimed at promotion of peace and justice in the world.”
Gholam Shire’i stressed that all religious minorities in he country
are fully respected and speaker that the minorities have been living
peacefully with their Muslim fellow citizens for centuries in Iran.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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