Pope Paul received today in a 50-minute private audience Rabbi Abraham Hershberg, Chief Rabbi of Mexico and president of the Union of Latin American Rabbis.
Rabbi Hershberg said that the Pope extended greetings to world Jewry and pledged that the work of understanding between religions started by the recent Second Vatican Ecumenical Council would be continued. At the end of the audience, the Pope again assured the rabbi that friendly relations with the Jewish people “who had suffered such terrible persecution, ” remained his particular care.
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