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Dec 2002 The conference for the dialogue among religions was held between
the Iranian Muslim and Polish Christian scholars at the Center for
Cultural Studies of the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday December 10,
2002. On the invitation of Hojjat-ul-Islam Muhammad Masjed Jamei, the
Director General of the Cultural Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran
(IRI) foreign Ministry and the president of the conference, and invitation
of the Polish ambassador to the IRI, a Jewish delegation participated in
the aforementioned conference. Scholars from both the IRI and Poland made several speeches at this
meeting and the topic of their addresses were in the main focused on the
commonalities of the monotheistic religions. References were also made to
the foundation for creation of love, which was established in Poland with
the purpose of bringing about rapprochement among monotheistic faiths. The chairman of first touched on the especial ceremonies held for the
Polish Jews at Tehran Jewish cemetery in the spring of 2002 and then
recited a short history on the presence of the Polish Jews in that country
and the cultural influence of Poland on Jews. He then referred to the
significant part played by Polish Jews in the contemporary history of the
Jewish people. Haroun Yashayaei then called on the clerics of all
religions to intervene in political affairs of their countries in order to
stop political aggressions waged by governments against various nations. On the invitation of TJC On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, Sileem
Hazbiovic, the Muslim deputy to Joint Association of Polish Muslims and
Catholics Zicislav Bilinski, the Christian deputy to the above-mentioned
association and Withold Schmidovski, the ambassador of Poland to Tehran
along with the embassy’s First Secretary and the IRI foreign Ministry
representative in the culture affairs attended Yousef Abad synagogue in
Tehran. They met and held talks with rabbi Cohen, the Jewish cleric, Mr.
Motamed, the Jewish MP from Tehran, and the members of board of directors
of TJC. During this meeting, the Jewish officials gave a rundown on the
conditions of the Iranian Jews and the Polish delegation then presented a
report on its religious activities in Poland. The latter then gave a short
history of the Polish Jews and explained their conditions. Later this said
delegation called for cultural ties to be established between Tehran and
Poland in the arena of Dialogue Among Religions and understanding among
the religious minorities of the two countries. |
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