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  Updated: September 14, 2005

Moussa Sadr remembered in Lebanon

By: Karim Tellawi

BEIRUT, Lebanon: At a ceremony commemorating the disappearance, 27 years ago, of Ayatullah Moussa As-Sadr, religious speakers stressed the importance of Christian-Muslim dialogue.

Al-Imam al-Muntazar Association held a festival attended by Bekaa Governor Antoine Suleiman representing the president, MP Camille Maalouf representing Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun, and Sadr's son Badreddine.

Also present were Pontifical Nuncio in Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Yemen and the Arab Peninsula Bishop Boulos Munajjed Hashem representing the Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir and Sheikh Adib Haidar, representing Higher Shia Council Vice-President Sheikh Abdel-Amir Qabalan.

Hashem, who delivered Sfeir's speech, spoke of his friendship with Sadr whom he described as a "man of dialogue."

In southern city of Sor, committee of rights of Lebanese organized a conference to prepare legal file and program regarding the crime of abduction of president and founder of Higher Shia Council Ayatullah Moussa As-Sadr, and two of his aides.


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BEIRUT, Lebanon: Vice-president Higher Shiia Council Sheikh Abdel-Amir Qabalan said 27 years have passed since the disappearance of Ayatullah Musa As-Sadr and his two companions in Libya, and this is still a hideous crime that nobody is doing anything about.  

 
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