{"id":15698,"date":"2019-01-03T04:36:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T04:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=15698"},"modified":"2019-01-03T04:36:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T04:36:24","slug":"hujjat-al-islam-abbasi-wishes-pope-francis-happy-new-year%e2%80%8e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/hujjat-al-islam-abbasi-wishes-pope-francis-happy-new-year%e2%80%8e\/","title":{"rendered":"Hujjat al-Islam Abbasi wishes Pope Francis \u2018Happy New Year\u2019\u200e"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<div class=\"row subtitle-box\">\n<div class=\"subtitle row\"><strong>Rasa \u2013 The new dean of al-Mustafa International University in Qom has written a letter to \u200ePope Francis on the occasion of Christmas and the beginning of 2019 in the Gregorian \u200ecalendar.\u200e<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"body row\">RNA \u2013 Hujjat al-Islam Dr. Ali Abbasi, the new dean of al-Mustafa International University in \u200eQom, has written a letter to Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and \u200esovereign of the Vatican City State, on the occasion of Christmas and the beginning of 2019 \u200ein the Gregorian calendar.\u200e<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\nThe letter is as follows:\u200e<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Excellency Pope Francis,\u200e<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Respected Leader of the Roman Catholics of the World,\u200e<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>With Cordial Greetings,\u200e<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am very pleased to congratulate you and all your respected colleagues in the Holy See, as \u200ewell as all of the monotheists of the world, especially the dear Christians of Iran, on the birth \u200eanniversary of Jesus Christ, the Son of Mary, and also the start of the new year of 2019, \u200ewhich coincided with the month of Rabi\u2019 al-Thani, the month of happiness for Muslims. \u200e<\/p>\n<p>Hereby, I, on behalf of all my colleagues at al-Mustafa International University, the largest \u200euniversity of the Shi\u2019a Muslim world which is located in the Holy City of Qom, use this \u200eopportunity, while affirming the position of religion in disseminating the message of \u200espirituality, rationality and justice in resolving the contemporary problems facing humanity, \u200edeclare the readiness of this university to collaborate more in a sympathetic manner as well \u200eas to apply the authentic teachings of Islam in interfaith interactions.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>I hope this year is the year that the followers of the various religious will play a greater role \u200ein establishing world peace. Today, more than ever, humanity is in dire need to take \u200eadvantage the divine teachings of the prophets to resist the dominating powers. \u200e<\/p>\n<p>I hope, by the grace of God Almighty, that there will be an opportunity to meet Your \u200eExcellency in 2019.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, I pray to God Almighty for the health and prosperity of Your Excellency and \u200ehonour happiness for all.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ali Abbasi,\u200e<br \/>\nDean of al-Mustafa International University<br \/>\n\u200e1 January, 2019\u200e<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rasa \u2013 The new dean of al-Mustafa International University in Qom has written a letter to \u200ePope Francis on the occasion of Christmas and the beginning of 2019 in the Gregorian \u200ecalendar.\u200e RNA \u2013 Hujjat al-Islam Dr. Ali Abbasi, the new dean of al-Mustafa International University in \u200eQom, has written a letter to Pope Francis, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-scientists-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15700,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15698\/revisions\/15700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}