Iranian Majlis Speaker attends Pope’s memorial service in Tehran

IRNA web site
8 Apr 05

Tehran, 8 April: Majlis Speaker Gholamali Haddad-Adel attended a
memorial service held for late Pope John Paul II here on Friday
[8 April] at Tehran’s St Joseph Church.

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, Haddad-Adel 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.”

The parliament Speaker stressed that all religious minorities in
the country are fully respected and stressed that the minorities
have been living peacefully with their Muslim fellow citizens for
centuries in Iran.