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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: September 15, 2005 |
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A historic visit of Pope Benedict XVI with Israel's Askenazi chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, and Israel's Sephardi chief rabbi, Shlomo Amar, is set to take place Thursday at the Pope's summer residence, Castle Gondolfo.
The visit will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Church's landmark document, "Nostra Aetate" (?In our time?), about relations between Christians and Jews. The document denounces anti-Semitism, and the "deicide" claim that the Jews killed Jesus.
The rabbis are expected to ask the Pope for support in "this very dire hour" to help fight against anti-Semitism and terrorism, and to encourage the pope to rejuvenate visits by bishops, cardinals, and other Christian pilgrims, to the Holy Land.
The AP contributed to this report. |
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