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Archbishop of Vienna Presents Keren Hayesod with $800 Contribution

January 13, 1967
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The first material aid in the history of the Catholic Church to a Zionist organization has been presented to the Keren Hayesod in Vienna, it was revealed yesterday. A symbolic gift of $800 from the Vienna Caritas, the official Catholic welfare organization, was presented by Franziskus Cardinal Konig, the Archbishop of Vienna, to Dr. Anton Winter, president of the Keren Hayesod in Vienna.

Cardinal Konig is active in fighting anti-Semitism in Austria. He was also one of the prelates who actively advocated the adoption at the Ecumenical Council last year of the declaration on Jews in which the Catholic church exonerated the Jewish people from the guilt of crucifying Jesus.

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