Fundamentalist Regimes Post Grave Threats to Women

December 19, 2007

Author: Eileen Connelly

Source: The Catholic Telegraph

http://www.catholiccincinnati.org/tct/dec1407/120707fundamentalist.html

ARCHDIOCESE — This past June, Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Louise Akers, co-coordinator of the congregation’s Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation, was among the participants at a large international forum held in Villepinte, a small town north of Paris, France.

The objective of the gathering, comprised of more than 50,000 people — Iranians, along with supporters from the United States and Europe — was "to witness to an alternative way of governance while calling for an end to the systematic oppression carried out by the Mullahs (clerics), especially toward women whose rights are not acknowledged nor allowed," Sister Louise explained.