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Your Friend Colin · « **on:** April 24, 2019, 10:29:48 PM »

Polish church condemns beating of Jєωιѕн effigy in Poland

ByTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WARSAW, Poland — Apr 22, 2019, 12:06 PM ET

The Catholic Church in Poland poured scorn Monday on an anti-Semitic ritual enacted over the Easter holiday that involved an effigy of Judas represented by a stereotypical Jєω being hanged, burned and beaten.
Residents, among them children, beat and burned the effigy in Pruchnik, a small town in southeast Poland, on Good Friday. The figure represented Judas, the disciple of Christ who betrayed him according to the New Testament.
The Catholic Church will never tolerate manifestations of contempt towards members of any nation, including the Jєωιѕн people, Bishop Rafal Markowski, chairman of the churchs Committee for Dialogue with Judaism, said, describing his view as the churchs position.
After the church statement, Interior Minister Joachim Brudzinski called the ritual idiotic, pseudo-religious chutzpah and asked why Satans revived the abandoned tradition.

The statements came after the World Jєωιѕн Congress on Sunday expressed its disgust and outrage.
Jєωs are deeply disturbed by this ghastly revival of medieval anti-Semitism that led to unimaginable violence and suffering, Robert Singer, CEO of the New York-based group, said.
Poles also expressed their disgust at the revival of the anti-Semitic ritual. Some posted photos online of the same ritual being carried out before World War II.
For centuries, the Catholic church taught that Jєωs killed Christ, a position that fomented centuries of hatred and violence against the Jєωιѕн communities in Europe. This position was rescinded by the Second Vatican Councils revolutionary 1965 docuмent on non- Christian religions, ?Nostra Aetate? (In Our Times).
A leading church figure who opposed anti-Semitism in the church was the Polish pope, John Paul II, who considered Jєωs to be Christians elder brothers in the faith.
One can only wonder how John Paul II who taught Catholics in his native Poland and all over the world that anti-Semitism is a sin against God and man would have reacted to this flagrant rejection of his teachings, Singer said.
The ritual comes after a diplomatic crisis last year between Poland and Israel sparked anti-Jєωιѕн sentiment in Poland as well as anti-Polish feeling in Israel.

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