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Fast Forward Catholic Bishops Conference Clarifies Position on Jewish Conversion
A group of U.S. Catholic bishops has tried to clarify the Church’s position on how it relates to the Jewish community. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement June 18 at its spring meeting in San Antonio, Texas, saying that while the Catholic Church will not target Jews for conversion, it will…
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Fast Forward Iran’s Supreme Leader Blames Protests on ‘Zionist’ Media
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denied that the country’s recent elections were fixed, called on protesters to stop and blamed the “Zionist” media. In his first public address since the June 12 elections, Iran’s highest ranking political and religious authority accused the opposition of “challenging democracy after the elections.” Khamenei delivered a nearly two-hour…
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Fast Forward Iran: Bomb Plot Linked to Israel Was Foiled
Iran claims to have foiled a plot linked to Israel to bomb crowded sites in Tehran on Election Day. Iran’s intelligence ministry also linked the plot to America and other “foreign enemies” of Iran, in a statement released Thursday, Reuters reported. A report on Iran state television said the plot, which included planting bombs in…
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Fast Forward Birthright Teens Contract Swine Flu in Israel
At least 10 participants in the Birthright Israel program came down with swine flu while in Israel and were quarantined. The teens infected 18 Israeli soldiers who met with the group, the Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. Some 131 people have been diagnosed with swine flu in Israel since its outbreak. About one-third of those infected…
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Fast Forward Poll Shows Dip in American Voters’ Supporting Israel
American voters’ support for Israel has dropped 20 percent in the past nine months, a new survey found. Some 49 percent of American voters call themselves supporters of Israel, down from 69 percent last September, according to the poll conducted for The Israel Project. The number of voters who called themselves undecided rose during that…
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Fast Forward Former Liberian Dictator Finds Judaism
Former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor has decided to convert to Judaism, one of his wives told the BBC. Taylor, who is set to go on trial for war crimes in the Special Court for Sierra Leone, apparently discovered Judaism in prison in the Hague. “He’s now a Jew. He’s practicing Judaism,” Victoria Taylor told BBC…
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Fast Forward Israel Will Not Seize Catholic Church Assets
Israel will not seize funds of Catholic institutions in the country, as Italian and Catholic media had reported. A statement Tuesday by the Israeli Embassy to the Holy See said that “the seizure of funds from the Ministry of Education destined for some educational institutions of the Catholic Church in Israel will not be made,…
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Fast Forward Israel Takes Catholic Church Assets in Tax Dispute
Israel’s Finance Ministry reportedly seized the assets of one or more Catholic Church institutions in Israel over tax issues. The reports Monday in the Italian media and from a Church news agency did not name the institutions in question, but said the action had been carried out by the Finance Ministry’s chief tax collector, Yehezkel…
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