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Pope condemns racism and anti-Semitism

Pravda
05/31/2006 14:49

Pope Benedict XVI followed up his visit to Auschwitz with a call Wednesday for the world to resist the "temptation of racial hatred," saying it was at the root of anti-Semitism. "May contemporary mankind not forget Auschwitz and other similar factories of death in which the Nazi regime attempted to eliminate God in order to take his place," the German-born pope told his weekly general audience.

Benedict stopped Sunday at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps in the final event of a four-day trip to Poland. As many as 1.5 million people, most of them Jews, died at the camps during World War II. "I wanted to stop at this place, sadly famous in the whole world, before returning to Rome," Benedict said in describing his pilgrimage. He said that there and in other camps "Hitler ordered the extermination of 6 million Jews."
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posted by Dr. Denice Hanley, DPM, M.Div. @ 11:24 AM