Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp prayed and wept as they marked the 75th anniversary of its liberation, returning Monday to the place where they lost entire families and warning about the ominous growth of anti-Semitism and hatred in the world.
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Pope Francis: “I will never grow tired of condemning every form of anti-Semitism”
Pope Francis firmly condemned “every form of anti-Semitism” on the eve of the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
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Stabbings, shootings and assaults weigh on U.S. Jewish youth
Anti-Semitic attacks rose worldwide by 13% in 2018 compared to the previous year, according to a report by Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary Jewry.
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Cardinal Nichols condemns hate speech after anti-Semitic graffiti appears
“The recent anti-Semitic graffiti in north London brings shame to us all,” said Cardinal Vincent Nichols.
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Anti-Semitism is on the rise in New York City’s Jewish communities
Bigoted messages have gone unchecked for years, said Rabbi Yisroel Kahan
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Catholic, Christian, Muslim voices condemn knife attack on N.Y. rabbi
A host of voices from throughout the religious spectrum condemned the Dec. 28 knife attack at the suburban New York City home of a Hasidic rabbi that wounded five, one of them critically.
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Bethlehem family feels draw of living in the town of Jesus’ birth
Unlike many other Christian families in the Bethlehem area, none of the Hosh siblings have moved abroad.
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What church and civic leaders can and must do to fight anti-Semitism
Hate crimes, particularly directed at the Jewish community, are stubbornly persistent both worldwide and in the United States, the editors write.
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Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders sign declaration against euthanasia
Representatives from the Catholic and Orthodox churches and the Muslim and Jewish faiths signed a joint declaration at the Vatican reaffirming each religion’s clear opposition to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.
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Anti-Semitic hate crimes must be universally denounced
Every citizen, whether aligned with the political right or the left, must denounce these crimes against our Jewish brothers and sisters.