IranMania, Iran
April 10 2005

Iran’s Majlis Speaker attends Pope’s memorial

Sunday, April 10, 2005 – ©2005 IranMania.com

LONDON, April 10 (IranMania) – Majlis Speaker Gholamali Haddad-Adel
attended a memorial service held for the late Pope John Paul II on
Friday at Tehran’s St. Joseph Church. Religious authorities of
Iranian Armenians, Assyrians, Jews, Armenian MPs, the military
attachŽ of Italy’s Embassy in Tehran and Catholic citizens paid
tribute to the late pontiff in the ceremony held by Tehran’s Assyrian
Catholics, IRNA reported.

Talking to reporters, Haddad-Adel said the world today needs peace
and justice more than anything else, noting that the real basis for
peace and justice is belief in God and the Resurrection Day.

The speaker added that these are common among followers of all
monotheist religions and that interactions among followers of divine
religions would help establish peace, justice and freedom throughout
the world.

On the character of the late Pope John Paul II, the world Catholics’
leader, he said, `We respect his grave efforts toward promotion of
peace and justice in the world.`

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