[Apologetics] Israel blasts Pope; Vatican responds

[Art Kelly]

Israel blasts Pope; Vatican responds 

Valle d'Aosta, Jul. 25 (CWNews.com) - The Vatican has
reacted sharply to a verbal attack on Pope Benedict
XVI (bio - news) launched by the Israeli foreign
ministry. 

In a harsh public statement released on July 25, the
Israeli government expressed outrage that the Pope had
not explicitly included Israel among the countries he
listed as recent victims of terrorism. The Pope,
during his public audience the previous day, had
condemned all terrorism, but particularly mentioned
the "execrable terrorist attacks" that had occurred in
recent days in England, Egypt, Turkey, and Iraq. 

The Israeli government statement charged that the
Pontiff had deliberately failed to mention a suicide
bombing in Israel on July 12-- an omission which, the
foreign ministry said, "cries out to the heavens." The
Pope's statement, the Israeli ministry continued,
placed a "moral stain" on Church leadership, by
"granting legitimacy to terrorist attacks on Jews." 

The complete article is at
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=38611

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