Italian nun expelled from Iran

Iran expels an Italian nun. The 75-year-old Sister Giuseppina Berti, who for 26 years worked in the leper colony of Tabriz and who now as a pensioner lives in Ispahan in the house of the Congregation of the Daughters of Charity, will have to leave the country in the coming days. This was reported by the Vatican media in explaining that the nun “has not been renewed her visa and has therefore received the expulsion order”. Her departure will make it difficult for her other sister to stay, the Austrian Sister Fabiola Weiss, 77 years old, 38 of whom dedicated to the poor and sick of the leper hospital, to whom instead the renewal of the residence permit was granted for another year. “. The two nuns, who have dedicated their lives to the sick in the country, regardless of religious or ethnic affiliation, are forced to abandon the house of the Congregation, built in 1937.” In Ispahan, – Vatican news recalls – the Daughters of Charity had dedicated themselves for years to the education and training of young people. It should also be remembered their commitment to hundreds of Polish children, refugees and war orphans, who arrived in Iran in the spring of 1942. In fact, in the city, the nuns ran a large school, which was confiscated after the 1979 revolution. In recent years , the two sisters did not carry out any external activities, to avoid being accused of proselytizing. “The house of the sisters is currently the only reality of the Latin Catholic Church in Ispahan.