JERUSALEM CHIEF RABBI: POPE AGREES TO CEASE CATHOLIC MISSIONARY ACTIVITY AMONG JEWS

MAY 13, 2009

Welcoming Pope Benedict to the Hechal Shlomo Center in Jerusalem, Rabbi Yona Metzger, Jerusalem’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi, said that the Pontiff had pledged to end Catholic missionary activity among the Jews. Pope Benedict made no reference to such an agreement in his own address.

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• ‘Vatican to stop missionizing Jews’ (Jerusalem Post)
• Papal address: Courtesy visit to the two Chief Rabbis of Jerusalem at Hechal Shlomo Center in Jerusalem (Holy See)