On his first day in Jerusalem, Pope Benedict XVI visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and said the suffering of Jews under the Nazi extermination campaign must "never be denied, belittled or forgotten."The pope called the Holocaust an atrocity that disgraced mankind, and said the church is committed to working tirelessly "to ensure that hatred will never reign in the hearts of men again."
With his head bowed and his hands folded, the 82-year-old pope prayed silently before an eternal flame in the Hall of Remembrance, a stone monument to the 6 million Jews killed in World War II. He stood in the tent-shaped structure, where the names of some of the Nazi death camps are inscribed in the floor, as a prayer was recited for the victims, the resistance fighters and those who risked their lives to save Jews from the Nazis.
In a brief talk, Pope Benedict said he had come "to stand in silence before this monument, erected to honor the memory of the millions of Jews killed in the horrific tragedy of the Shoah."
story here
Sheikh attacks Israel, pope walks out
0 comments:
Post a Comment