Iran Regime Plans to Forcibly Turn Tehran Assyrian Church Grounds Into Mosque

[Sally]

Like there are not already enough mosques in Iran.


Iran Regime Plans to Forcibly Turn Tehran Assyrian Church Grounds Into Mosque

http://www.ncr-iran.org
Posted 2016-01-03 06:31 GMT

Authorities in Tehran are planning to transform illegally-confiscated church grounds into an 'Islamic prayer center.'


The land belonging to the Iranian Assyrian community's Chaldean Catholic Church in Tehran's Patrice Lumumba Street (in Western Tehran) was illegally confiscated two years ago under the pretext of constructing an Islamic prayer hall and the authorities have refused to hand it back, a member of the regime's Majlis (Parliament) was quoted as saying by the state-run newspaper Sharq on Wednesday, December 30.

Repeated complaints about the illegal confiscation of the church grounds have fallen on deaf ears despite repeated pleas by the representatives of the Christian minority, said Jonathan Bet-Kelia, a member of the regime's Majlis.

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Iran Regime Plans to Forcibly Turn Tehran Assyrian Church Grounds Into Mosque

 

[The Great Goose]

Ah well, fire in the belly should be, ah, how do we say now? .. resourced?

 

[aris2chat]

For some there are too many churches

 

[The Great Goose]

For some there are too many churches

What means?

 

[aris2chat]

For some there are too many churches

What means?

fewer churches, fewer christians.
Muslims have a long history of using churches for mosques or adopting religious property as their own.

 

[The Great Goose]

For some there are too many churches

What means?

fewer churches, fewer christians.
Muslims have a long history of using churches for mosques or adopting religious property as their own.

Bah, bulldoze them all, equally.