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Coptic Church in Egypt Opposes.vatican Step to Absolve Jews of Deicide

September 30, 1964
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The Coptic Church of Egypt today charged that the proposed declaration on Catholic-Jewish relations, being debated by the Ecumenical Council, is motivated by “purely political” considerations according to a Cairo dispatch received here today. The church’s official organ called specifically on the Council at the Vatican to avoid adoption of any declaration that would absolve the Jews of deicide.

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