High-ranking Orthodox prelate warns against spread of anti-Semitism by religious officials
Thessaloniki, Greece AP Speaking on the day for commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, a high-ranking official of the Orthodox Church warned Sunday against the spread of anti-Semitism by religious and church officials. “I am worried by the spread of anti-Semitism internationally,” Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, spiritual leader of Greek Orthodox faithful in North and […]
Posters appear in Moscow accusing famous Swedes of backing Nazism
Reuters Posters accusing some of the 20th century’s most famous Swedes of supporting Nazism have appeared on Moscow’s streets in a sign of worsening relations between Russia and Sweden as the Nordic country contemplates joining NATO. Outside the Swedish embassy two posters affixed to a bus stop featured photographs of Swedish King Gustaf V, writer […]
FILM: IN ‘HIDDEN LIFE’, TERRENCE MALICK SAYS FREEDOM IS WON IN STANDING UP FOR BELIEFS
CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ, of Religion News Service, reports on director Terrence Mallick’s latest movie, ‘A Hidden Life’, which tells the story of a peasant in Nazi-occupied Austria who refuses to swear loyalty to Hitler because of his Catholic faith…
BOOKS: EXAMINING POPE PIUS XI’S LITTLE KNOWN EFFORTS TO COUNTER HITLER
DAVID ADAMS reads Peter Eisner’s account of how American priest John LaFarge supported Pope Pius XI’s little known efforts to counter the rise of anti-Semitism in the days before the outbreak of World War II…