Vatican May Intervene To Save Iranian Woman In Stoning Case
A demonstrator holds a picture of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani at a protest in front of the Iranian Embassy in Rome earlier this month./ The Vatican has said it may use its moral authority to try to persuade Iran to spare the life of a woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery. In its first public comments on the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a Vatican spokesman on September 5 denounced stoning as a "particularly brutal form" of capital punishment and strongly hinted that the Holy See would use quiet diplomacy in an effort to ...
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