As the Archbishop of Canterbury’s diplomatic envoy, Terry Waite negotiated the release of hostages taken in Iran in 1980. In securing the liberty of four of those captured it has now emerged he worked with Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, a Greek Melkite, who played a key role in the United States-Iranian hostage crisis in 1981, and had the ear of Ayatollah Khomeini. A new book, God and Mrs Thatcher, says Capucci met the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in London and received a l
05 March 2015, The Tablet
Ecumenical wheels within wheels
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