ROME (AP) – Pope Francis has denounced all violence committed in the name of God in a visit to Rome’s main synagogue, joining the oldest Jewish community in the diaspora in a sign of interfaith friendship at a time of religiously-inspired attacks around the globe.
During a visit Sunday marked by tight security and historic continuity, Francis also rejected all forms of anti-Semitism and called for “maximum vigilance” and early intervention to prevent another Holocaust.
He repeated several times that Jews are the “elder brothers and sisters” of Christians, repeating the words first uttered by St. John Paul II during the first-ever papal visit to the synagogue 30 years ago.
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