{"id":2401,"date":"2016-02-18T08:34:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T08:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/marjaeyat\/2401-christian-delegation-visits-top-religious-authorities-in-najaf\/"},"modified":"2016-02-18T08:34:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T08:34:21","slug":"christian-delegation-visits-top-religious-authorities-in-najaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/marjaeyat\/2401-christian-delegation-visits-top-religious-authorities-in-najaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian delegation visits top Religious Authorities in Najaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px; line-height: 15.808px;\">A Christian delegation coming from D.C. \u00a0visited Supreme Religious Authorities in the holy city of Najaf<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-12416\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/images_2016_02_17_02-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/images_2016_02_17_02-01.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/images_2016_02_17_02-01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/02\/images_2016_02_17_02-01-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\">A Christian delegation coming from Washington, D.C. has visited on Tuesday the Supreme Religious Authorities in the holy city of Najaf.<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0The delegation included a group of Catholic and Anglican bishops led by the Cardinal of the Catholic Church, Theodore McCarrick, and the Archbishop of the Anglican Church, John Bryson Chane. Three of the four religious authorities were visited: Grand Ayatollah Ishaq al-Fayadh, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim, and Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Bashir al-Najafi.<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\">His Eminence Sheikh Fayadhnoted during his meeting with the delegation that Islam is not a religion that teaches or promotes hatred, murder or any type of terrorism, what we see today is far from the pure image of this peaceful religion.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christian delegation coming from D.C. \u00a0visited Supreme Religious Authorities in the holy city of Najaf \u00a0 A Christian delegation coming from Washington, D.C. has visited on Tuesday the Supreme Religious Authorities in the holy city of Najaf. \u00a0The delegation included a group of Catholic and Anglican bishops led by the Cardinal of the Catholic &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marjaeyat","tag-ayatollah-bashir-najafi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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