The President described the cruelty and crime against humanity in different parts of the world as the result of being away from morality and faith and said, "The foundation of civilisation that the prophets and divine saints have promised is rationality, spirituality, morality and justice and we must seek the formation of such human-building societies".
Speaking in a meeting with Patriarch Mar Awa Royel III, the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East and his accompanying delegation on Monday, Ayatollah Dr Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi called faith and morality the central issue of human society and said, "If faith and morality, especially by those who have a role in the divine religions, are well explained, it can open many knots of human societies".
Stating that today many societies suffer from the lack of morality and faith despite development, the President clarified, "Human need is not only for development and prosperity, but one of the most important human needs which have been neglected in these societies is spirituality, morality and connection with God".
Dr Raisi continued that the atrocities and crimes against humanity in different parts of the world are caused by the distance from morals and faith and said, "Takfiri terrorists committed crimes in our region with the false claim of religious orientation but without minimum adherence to morals and faith, but the group who stood against this criminal group and eliminated them from the nations of the region, including the martyred Lieutenant General Haj Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, were armed with the weapons of true faith and morals".
The President stated that the condition for the satisfaction of the Holy Prophet of Islam (PBUH), Jesus Christ (PBUH) and all the prophets and divine saints is insistence on the divine faith and opposition to oppression and corruption, and added, "The foundation of civilisation that the prophets and divine saints have promised is rationality, spirituality, morality and justice and we must seek the formation of such human-building societies".
In this meeting, Patriarch Mar Awa Royel III, the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, said, "We are very pleased with the special attention paid by the officials of the Islamic Republic to inter-religious dialogues, the presence of representatives of religions in the governing structure of the Islamic Republic shows the depth of the system's belief and respect for monotheistic religions and we hope that these bonds of affection and friendship will increase day by day".
The world leader of the Assyrian Church of the East emphasised, "I thank the Islamic Republic of Iran for its fight against the ISIS terrorist group for the survival of faith and humanity in Iraq and Syria".