Jewish-Vatican joint project on Aids
Jewish communal leaders plan to discuss a joint project with the Vatican to combat AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa when they hold their first meeting with the new pontiff in Rome in the coming days.
World Jewish Congress President Edgar Bronfman and governing board chairman Israel Singer will visit newly installed Pope Benedict XVI after participating in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe conference on anti-Semitism in Cordoba and the WJC governing board meeting, also in Cordoba, at which the AIDS initiative was discussed.
"It's part of the general principle of alliance with non-Jews, [since the Jews] cannot be a people of 12 million people and live alone," Singer told The Jerusalem Post following the Tuesday governing board meeting.
He said that at the meeting with Benedict XVI, he will encourage a continuation of the same relationship his organization and the Vatican have of late enjoyed, noting that before he became the pope, Joseph Ratzinger "wrote all the basis of the theology against anti-Semitism for the last pope."
Singer also indicated that he would press Benedict XVI to push bishops throughout the world to join those of France and Germany in making public statements against anti-Semitism.
(by Hilary Leila Krieger, The Jerusalem Post, June 8, 2005)
World Jewish Congress President Edgar Bronfman and governing board chairman Israel Singer will visit newly installed Pope Benedict XVI after participating in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe conference on anti-Semitism in Cordoba and the WJC governing board meeting, also in Cordoba, at which the AIDS initiative was discussed.
"It's part of the general principle of alliance with non-Jews, [since the Jews] cannot be a people of 12 million people and live alone," Singer told The Jerusalem Post following the Tuesday governing board meeting.
He said that at the meeting with Benedict XVI, he will encourage a continuation of the same relationship his organization and the Vatican have of late enjoyed, noting that before he became the pope, Joseph Ratzinger "wrote all the basis of the theology against anti-Semitism for the last pope."
Singer also indicated that he would press Benedict XVI to push bishops throughout the world to join those of France and Germany in making public statements against anti-Semitism.
(by Hilary Leila Krieger, The Jerusalem Post, June 8, 2005)
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