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by bcadmin | Sep 13, 2022 | Associated Press, Catholic Schools, Jewish community, Jews, New York, News | 0 |
New York is poised to strengthen its oversight of private and religious schools following years of complaints that thousands of children are graduating from ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools lacking basic academic skills.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 14, 2022 | David Kertzer, Hitler, Holocaust, Jews, Michael Hesemann, News, Pope Pius XII, The Dispatch | 0 |
Two substantial new historical studies of Pope Pius XII’s response to the Jewish Holocaust reach sharply opposed conclusions. Not surprisingly, it’s the negative criticism of Pius rather than the documented defense that’s getting attention, including […
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 30, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic-Jewish relations, Jews, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Interreligious dialogue is key to preventing “the extremism that, sadly, is a pathology that can appear also in religions,” Pope Francis said in a message to members of a Jewish group engaged in dialogue for more than 50 years.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 25, 2022 | Anti-Christian persecution, Catholic News Service, Catholic-Jewish relations, Church in the Middle East, church vandalized, Holy Land, Israel, Jews, News, Vandalism | 0 |
A Benedictine priest told a Jewish delegation visiting his monastery that the monks know the perpetrators of vandalism represented a small minority of radicalized Jews.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 25, 2022 | Associated Press, Holocaust, Israel, Jews, News, Poland, World War II | 0 |
As the world commemorates the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp , Yad Vashem is highlighting the stories of “Righteous Rescuers.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 18, 2021 | Anti-Christian persecution, anti-Christian violence, Apostolic Armenian Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Israel, Jerusalem, Jews, News | 0 |
The Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem urged Israeli police to “seriously investigate” a Nov. 15 incident in which a young Orthodox Jewish man spit several times at the entrance of the patriarchate
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 18, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Holocaust, Jews, Nazis, News, Poland, World War II | 0 |
During the German occupation of Poland during World War II, the Germans murdered Jews death camps, but also shot them in fields and forests near their homes.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 14, 2021 | Hungary, Jewish-Catholic relations, Jews, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Slovakia, teaching of contempt, Torah | 0 |
The pope’s Sept. 12-15 trip to Hungary and Slovakia comes on the heels of a rift with Jews caused by comments on the Torah Pope Francis made on August 11.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 9, 2021 | Afghanistan, Associated Press, Church in Asia, Jewish community, Jews, News, Taliban | 0 |
The last member of Afghanistan’s Jewish community has left the country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 9, 2021 | Christians, Featured, Jews, News, Scripture, Scripture Study, Shared Scriptures, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Jews and Christians can learn from each other’s shared Scriptures, according to two renowned academics.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 12, 2021 | Becket, Becket Fund, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, Jews, New York, News, synagogue | 0 |
A federal judge in Brooklyn Feb. 9 permanently blocked New York state capacity limits for worship at Orthodox synagogues in areas with high rates of COVID-19 infections.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 27, 2021 | Anti-semitism, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, General Audience, Holocaust, Jews, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Wednesday Audience | 0 |
Remembering the Holocaust and its victims is not only an act of solidarity but also serves as a warning to humanity that such horrors could happen again, Pope Francis said.
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