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Pope: I stand with Rachel Goldberg-Polin

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Pope Francis said Sunday that he stands with the family of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whom Hamas terrorists kidnapped on Oct.7 and murdered in late August. The pontiff has maintained a policy of neutrality during the war...
Pope Francis presides over Mass on Easter Sunday morning in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Altar of the Chair. Source: YouTube

The Vatican is risking its relationship with the Jewish world

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Relations between Israel and the Vatican have become tense in recent weeks. In the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem, an ecumenical group of...
Pope Francis presides over over mass at the conclusion of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome on Oct. 29, 2023. Source: YouTube/Vatican News.

‘Let the arms cease,’ Pope Francis says

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Pope Francis called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas during his weekly, Sunday address in Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City. "In Gaza, spaces must be left to guarantee humanitarian aid and the hostages...
Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican, where he presents him with a plaque of the Ten Commandments, on June 9, 2022. Credit: Vatican Media.

Jewish leaders wish Pope Francis a speedy recovery

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As doctors treat Pope Francis, who has been in the hospital for several days due to a respiratory infection, many Jewish supporters and friends are expressing hope for his improving health. Media reports say...
Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and CEO of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Dawn Arnall, its chairwoman, present a letter written and typed by Adolf Hitler in 1919 documenting plans for German and world Jewry to Pope Frances at the Vatican on June 22, 2022. Credit: Vatican Media, Courtesy of Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Simon Wiesenthal Center grants Pope Francis 1919 anti-Semitic letter by Hitler

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A 30-member Simon Wiesenthal Center international delegation met with Pope Francis on Wednesday to present a facsimile of an original four-page 1919 document authored and signed by Adolf Hitler, in which he openly espouses the destruction of...
Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican, where he presents him with a plaque of the Ten Commandments, on June 9, 2022. Credit: Vatican Media.

At Vatican, Pope Francis discusses Holocaust, anti-Semitism with Dani Dayan

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Chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center in Jerusalem, Dani Dayan, met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday. “I felt the weight of responsibility as someone who represents not only himself and...
Pope Francis and King Mohammed VI united for world peace and mankind coexistence, Rabat, Morocco, March 2019

Pope Francis and Part Two of the Abraham Accords

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Our father, Abraham, has had a lot on his plate lately—always for the good of humanity, as is his habit. “Lech lecha,” the Creator commanded him, “go from your land and from your birthplace...
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin with Pope Francis on Nov. 15, 2018. Credit: Koby Gideon/GPO.

Pope Francis sends message to Israeli president, people during flyover

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Pope Francis on Friday sent a message to Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin and the Israeli people during his flyover of the country en route from Rome to Iraq. “To His Excellency Reuven Rivlin, president of...
Pope Francis arrives to pray in front of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 26, 2014. Photo by Nati Shohat/FLASH90

The Vatican opens its wartime archive

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One of the most persistent and controversial debates about the history of World War II concerns the role of the Catholic Church during the Holocaust, and specifically, the actions of Pope Pius XII. In...
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Papal infallibility? Not when it comes to the Middle East

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The words of the prophet Isaiah that Pope Francis cited on Sunday during his speech in the Italian port city of Bari are especially beautiful to those who read them from Jerusalem, because here...