Vatican City, Oct 12, 2013 / 04:48 am
Meeting with members of the Jewish community in Rome, Pope Francis reflected on the tragedies of the past and called for the cultivation of brotherly love and friendship between the Catholic and Jewish people.
"We will remember in a few days the 70th anniversary of the deportation of the Jews of Rome," said the Holy Father, according to Vatican Radio. "We will remember and pray for the many innocent victims of human barbarity, for their families."
"It will also be an opportunity to keep vigilant so that, under any pretext, any forms of intolerance and anti-Semitism in Rome and the rest of the world not come back to life."
Pope Francis emphasized that Christianity and anti-Semitism are incompatible.