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Shahdad Rohani perform concerts in Tehran 

Prominent Iranian composer and conductor Shahdad Rohani will perform concerts with an orchestra composed of musicians from the Tehran Symphony Orchestra in Tehran.

 

The concert will be performed at the Grand Hall of the Interior Ministry on January 22 and 23.

 

 

Book on history of Persian literature published in Istanbul

 

TEHRAN -- A book on the history of Persian literature has been published in Turkish in Istanbul.

 

“The History of Persian Literature” has been authored by Mehmet Atalay, a professor of Persian literature at Istanbul University.

 

The book studies the history of Persian literature from the beginning to the Ghaznavid era (977–1186 CE), during which the Turkish dynasty ruled in Khorasan in northeastern Iran, Afghanistan and northern India. 

 

 

Persian version of “Catechism of the Catholic Church” unveiled in Rome

TEHRAN -- A Persian version of “Catechism of the Catholic Church”, which was rendered by translators from the University of Religions and Denominations (URD) in Qom, has been unveiled at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

 

URD Chancellor Hojjatoleslam Abohassan Navvab, Cardinal Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran, the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue in the Roman Curia and a number of cultural figures attended the unveiling ceremony.

 

“Catechism of the Catholic Church” is a complete summary of what Catholics throughout the world believe in common. The book draws on the Bible, the Mass, the Sacraments, Church tradition and teaching, and the lives of saints.

 

The translators of the URD spent 12 years rendering the book into Persian.

 

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