Pope Francis says history of Jewish extermination repeats itself in Ukraine

Pope Francis assured today that “history repeats itself” in Ukraine when remembering the anniversary of the so-called “Reinhard operation”, the code name of the secret plan that the Nazis launched in World War II to exterminate Polish Jews. .

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“Last Monday, the Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the Catholic University of Lublin commemorated the anniversary of ‘Operation Reinhardt’, which led to the extermination of almost two million victims, mostly of Jewish origin, during World War II. World. May the memory of this horrible event inspire in everyone intentions and actions in favor of peace.” he said during the general audience.

And then, during the greeting to the Polish faithful, Francisco added: “History repeats itself, repeats itself, we see what is happening now in Ukraine.”

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The pontiff concluded the audience by asking the Virgin of the Immaculate, whose feast is celebrated tomorrow, to “give comfort to all those affected by the brutality of the war” and “especially for the martyred Ukraine”, in addition to urging the faithful to pray for the “martyred” and “suffering so much” Ukrainian people.

In the foreword to a recently published book containing his calls for peace in Ukrainethe pontiff encourages “to continue praying insistently for peace in Ukraine, truly without getting tired, we must not get used to this war like any other.”

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“We must not allow our hearts and minds to be numbed by the repetition of these grave horrors against God and against man. We must not, for any reason in the world, get used to all this, taking almost for granted this third fragmented world war that has dramatically turned, before our very eyes, into a third total world war.”add.

Source: Elcomercio

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