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Pope expresses remorse for Jews
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Standing before the ashes of death
'camp victims in the candlelit shadows of Israel’s Holocaust
memorial, a visibly moved Pope John Paul II told the Jewish
people on Thursday that his church is “deeply saddened” by
Christian persecution of Jews through the centuries.
The tribute in the drafty stone halls of the Yad Vashem
Memorial was both historic and personal for a pope who lost
boyhood friends in the Nazi genocide.
But it did not satisfy those looking for an
apology from the leader of the world's 1
billion Roman Catholics for the church’s
official silence amidst the mass killing
of Europe’s Jews.
The somber ceremony attended by
Israeli officials. Holocaust survivors
and Jewish friends from the pope’s own
hometown in Poland was punctuated by
small, touching moments as well as
grand gestures.
A Holocaust survivor greeting the pope began crying, and
he gently patted her arm in consolation. Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Barak, his voice hoarse with emotion, at one point helped
the frail pontiff from his chair and handed him his cane.
A letter from a Holocaust victim to her son, read out in Pol
ish at the ceremony as John Paul followed intently, moved many
to tears. In an anguished voice, a Jewish cantor sang a Prayer
for the Martyrs. A police commander in uniform wept.
“I have come to Yad Vashem to pay homage to the millions
of Jewish people who, stripped of everything, especially oftheir
human dignity, were murdered in the Holocaust,” John Paul said.
“As bishop of Rome and successor of the Apostle Peter, I
assure the Jewish people that the Catholic Church, motivated
by the Gospel law of truth and love, and by no political con
siderations, is deeply saddened by the hatred, acts of persecu
tion and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews by.
Christians at any time and in any place,” the pope said. <
He said he hoped good would come from the bad and that
follow'ers of the two faiths would build a new future, based on
their common roots.
Afterwards, Barak said John Paul had done more than any
other church leader “to dress the bitter wounds that festered
over many bitter centuries.” The prime minister’s grandparents
perished in the Treblinka death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
“I think 1 can say, your Holiness, that
your coming here today ... is a climax of
this historic journey of healing,” he said.
“This very moment holds within it 2,000
years of history.”
Still, many were frustrated at John
Paul’s refusal to assign blame to the Ro
man Catholic church hierarchy — in par
ticular Pius XII, the World War H-era
pontiff — for the church’s failure to
speak out against the I folocaust.
The pope is one of the staunchest
defenders of Pius, who is being con
sidered by the Vatican for beatification, a step before saint
hood. The Vatican has said Pius did not know the extent of
Hitler’s purges, and John Paul has called him “a great pope.”
Israel’s chief rabbi, Israel Meir Lau, a 1 lolocaust sun ivor,
said he was disappointed that the pontiff did not mention Pius
XII, “a pope who didn't say a word at a time when rivers of
blood were streaming all over Europe.”
“Pius XII didn't like us, he was silent. At least this pope is
speaking out,” said Jacov Silverstein, 75, wearing a black-and-
white-striped cap of concentration camp inmates. 1 le was one of
201 lolocaust survivors at Yad Vashem during the pope’s address.
The hour at the Holocaust memorial was the emotional
highlight of his groundbreaking visit to the Jewish state and
sealed his legacy of unprecedented activism to reconcile
Catholics and Jews. However, at an interfaith gathering host
ed by the pope later Thursday, it quickly became clear that
religious harmony is still difficult to attain in the troubled
Middle East.
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signing at the MSC Thursday as part of AggieCon 31.
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Bethel Temple Assembly of God
2608 Villa Maria, Bryan
776-4835
Sunday Worship 8:30, 10:45, 6:00 pm
College & Career Class Sun. 9:30
Randy Scott, Pastor
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‘Baptist
Texas Avenue Baptist Church
3400 Texas Avenue South, C.S.
(at the intersection of Deacon & Texas Ave.)
696-6000
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Worship Service 10:30 a.m., Bible Study 4 p.m.,
Wednesday 7 p.m.
Pastor Eric Doucet
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Living Hope Baptist Church
Sunday Schedule: We are NOW meeting at
9:45 AM Bible Study Cypress Grove Inter. School
11:00 AM Worship on g ra ham Rd. between
6:30 PM Worship Wellborn and the West
INFO: 690-1911 bypass service Road.
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Grace Bible Church
700 Anderson, College Station
693-2911
Services: 9:15 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 6:00 p.m.
College Sunday School Class 9:15 & 11 a.m.
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St. Mary’s
603 Church Ave., 846-5717
Pastoral Team
Rev. Michael J. Sis, Pastor
Rev. David A. Konderla, Associate Pastor
Campus Ministers
Deacon Bill Scott • Martha Tonn
Lillian Smith • Maureen Murray
Heidi Nicolini
Daily Masses
Mon.-Fri.: 5:30 p.m.
Tues, Thurs: 12:05 Noon
All Faith’s Chapel on A&M Campus
Sat.: 10:30 a.m. (Korean)
Weekend Masses
Sat. - 5:30 p.m. (English), 7:00 (Spanish)
Sun. - 9:00, 11:00 a.m., 5:30, 7:00 p.m.
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Bryan / College Station Church of Christ
Sunday Wednesday
Bible Class 9:00 a.m.
Worship 10:00 a.m.
Worship 6:00 p.m.
Bible Class 7:00 p.m.
College Station Conference Center
(Just across George Bush from TAMU Go* Course)
(409) 731-1230
Email: mark-d @ tamu.edu or mwm@tamu.edu
‘Episcopal
St. Thomas Episcopal
906 George Bush Dr. • College Station, TX
(Across from Duncan Dining Flail)
Sunday services at 8:00, 9:00 and especially
for late rising Ags, 11:15 a.m.
Next door to Canterbury House,
the Episopal Student Center
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Fellowship Free Will
Baptist Church
College & Career Class
You are invited to a Bible
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Sunday mornings at 9:45
1228 W. Villa Maria
779-2297
For more information contact
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mbrewer@tamu.edu
Lutheran
Peace Lutheran Church
FM 2818 at Rio Grande • College Station
Worship 8:15 & 10:45
Aggie Lutherans
Craig Borchardt - Pastor Debra Grant - Pastor
2201 Rio Grande Blvd 693-4403
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Family Church
“Success Begins on Sunday “
Danny & Janet Green, Pastors
Sunday 10:30 a.m. Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
4010 Harvey Rd., (Hwy. 30) E-Mail: greencfc@aol.com
College Station 774-1269 www.covenant-family-church.org
‘United Methodist
A&M United Methodist
417 University Dr. (on Northgate) • 846-8731
Sunday Services: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m.
College Sunday School 9:45
Sr. Pastor Charles Anderson
amumc@tca.net
First United Methodist Church
28th & Houston St.,
1 block E. of Texas Ave., in Bryan
779-1324
Sunday Worship 8:40 &10:55 a.m., 6:00 p.m.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Rev. Harral Dunnam, Senior Pastor Rev. Bob Richers, Assodate Pastor
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Nigerian oil fields spark violent
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) —
Beneath the swamps where
poor Nigerians eke out a living
from fishing and farming are
some of the world's largest un
tapped oil fields.
At a time when crude prices
have tripled from 1998 lows, the
world’s sixth-largest exporter has
some of the industry’s largest un
tapped oil fields.
Community activists in the
oil-rich Niger Delta demand
some of that wealth for the im
poverished region and stage fre
quent attacks against petroleum
facilities, kidnapping workers
and sabotaging pipelines.
The state Nigerian National
Petroleum Corp. has warned it
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nearly $17 billion last year.
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