Kerry asks Vatican to help in freedom bid for Alan Gross U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry asked the Vatican to intercede to help free American-Jewish contractor Alan Gross from a Cuban jail.
Netanyahu will not meet pope during Rome visit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not meet with Pope Francis during a visit to Rome, as the Israeli leader’s office had announced.
Pope warns of anti-Semitism as Rome commemorates Holocaust victims Pope Francis urged vigilance against any resurgence of anti-Semitism ahead of the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Rome’s Jews to Auschwitz.