Pope Francis held a meeting with members of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an institution that compiles information on Holocaust victims and documents cases of anti-Semitic aggression.<\/p>\n
One of its founders, Rabbi Marvin Hier, described to the pope some of the most terrible acts committed against Jews in recent times. That's why they made a request to Pope Francis. <\/p>\n
\u201cYour Holiness, we have come to ask for your help as the leader of the Christian world, to help us confront this debasement of humanity.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n The pope recalled that the year 2020 will mark 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. It is a date calling for pause and reflection. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS <\/strong> Pope Francis said this growing egotistical indifference contributes to the birth of populism and hatred. He asked those present to fight this trend at its root. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS Then the pope invited Jews and Christians to foster fraternity by being attentive to victims of any type of discrimination and by caring for society's discarded and marginalized.<\/p>\n \n\u00c1ngeles Conde. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 20, 2020 - He met with members of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TUu1EyzDnhg","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapasimonwiesenthaleng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapasimonwiesenthalint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cIf we lose our memory, we destroy the future. The anniversary of the indescribable cruelty humanity discovered 75 years ago is a call to stop, be silent and make memory. We need this to not become indifferent.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cThis prepares land fertile for particularism and populism, which we see all around us. In this land, hatred grows rapidly. Hatred. To sow hatred. Even recently we have witnessed a barbaric rise in anti-Semitism. I do not tire of firmly condemning every form of anti-Semitism. To tackle the problem at its root, we must commit to plowing the land where hatred grows, and sowing peace.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n