UN Envoy Lauds Her Great Spiritual Experience at Imam Hussein Shrine
Jeanine Antoinette Plasschaert, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, visited the shrine on December 11, 2022.
Later in a letter to the Astan (custodianship) of Imam Hussein (AS) holy shrine, she thanked the officials for their hospitality. “This was a magnificent spiritual experience,” she said in the letter written in Arabic.
She also hailed the humanitarian activities of the Warith International Foundation for Oncology in Karbala which is affiliated with the Astan.
The UN delegation also held a meeting with Ayatollah Sistani a few days before visiting the shrine.
During the meeting, the senior cleric underscored the importance of coordinated efforts to promote the culture of peaceful coexistence, rejection of violence and hate, and upholding values of solidarity based on attention to the rights and mutual respect among followers of different faiths.
Ayatollah Sistani also said tragedies that many nations and ethnic and social groups are suffering from in many parts of the world and are rooted in oppression and lack of social justice play a major role in the emergence of some extremist groups that use blind violence against defenseless civilians.
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