Reply #38: Update: Pope's Envoy to Attend Holocaust Service (AP)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Pope's Envoy to Attend Holocaust Service


Sunday April 15, 2007 2:01 PM

By ARON HELLER

Associated Press Writer

JERUSALEM (AP) - The Vatican's ambassador to Israel will attend
a Holocaust memorial service at the Yad Vashem museum, reversing
an earlier decision to boycott the event, officials said Sunday.

Vatican officials had said they would skip the Sunday event
because of a caption at the Holocaust museum describing the
wartime conduct of Pope Pius XII.

Officials from Yad Vashem, the Vatican's Embassy and the Israeli
Foreign Ministry confirmed Sunday that the ambassador, Monsignor
Antonio Franco, would attend.

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The boycott had threatened to upset fragile relations between
Israel and the Vatican.

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