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• Rome Jewish community pans Iranian president’s visit

  January 27, 2016 7:13am

  During a meeting, Pope Francis urged Hassan Rouhani to combat terrorism and work for peace in the Middle East.

• Pope Francis, in visit to Rome synagogue, calls for end to religious violence

  January 17, 2016 1:03pm

  Francis’s visit comes half a century after the Vatican’s landmark Nostra Aetate declaration, which opened the way to formal Catholic-Jewish dialogue.

• What Pope Francis synagogue visit says about Catholic-Jewish relations

  January 15, 2016 11:05am

  The pontiff’s upcoming visit to Rome’s Great Synagogue on Sunday shows that what was once unthinkable is now the norm.

• Treaty between Vatican, state of Palestine goes into effect

  January 3, 2016 9:21am

  The two entities signed the pact this summer; the Vatican recognized a state of Palestine nearly three years ago.

• Rome prosecutors investigating list of Italian Jews posted on extremist website

  December 23, 2015 3:54pm

  Six years ago, a virtually identical list as the one on the Italian section of Radio Islam was posted on the white supremacist website Stormfront.

• Andreja Preger, noted concert pianist, anti-Nazi partisan, dies at 104

  December 20, 2015 12:31pm

  Preger taught piano at music academies, performed widely and founded the Belgrade Trio, which performed concerts all over Europe as well as in the United States and the Soviet Union.

• Vatican: Catholic Church must not try to convert Jews

  December 10, 2015 11:07am

  A new Vatican document said the Church must work with Jews and Jewish institutions to further dialogue and mutually understand and fight anti-Semitism.

• Jewish souvenir vendors wear yellow Stars of David in Rome protest

  December 3, 2015 4:52pm

  A spokesman for the vendors said they used the Holocaust imagery “because the latest measures taken by the city seem to be aimed at Jews.”

• Top officials at Rome’s Israelite Hospital arrested in fraud probe

  October 23, 2015 4:52pm

  Italian police arrested senior officials and medical personnel at Rome’s Israelite Hospital for allegedly defrauding the country’s national health service.

• Italian synagogue damaged in severe storm

  October 4, 2015 2:23pm

  Some of the windows were shattered and pictures showed glass littering the interior of the sanctuary in Tuscany.