The Vatican called the recent arrest of 13 Iranian Jews a “matter of concern” to all those committed to human rights. In a letter to the World Jewish Congress, Cardinal Edward Cassidy, the Vatican official on Jewish affairs, said Pope John Paul II is following the situation carefully.
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