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STERN: Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel hat Papst Benedikt XVI. zu einer deutlichen Stellungnahme zum Umgang mit dem Holocaust aufgefordert. Es gehe darum, eindeutig klarzustellen, dass es keine Leugnung geben könne, sagte sie. Indes wächst die Kritik deutscher Theologen am Papst wegen der Rehabilitierung von vier Bischöfen der erzkonservativen Pius-Bruderschaft.
Papst Benedikt XVI. gerät wegen der Rehabilitierung eines Holocaust-Leugners in den eigenen Reihen zunehmend unter Druck. Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel forderte ihn zu einer deutlichen Position in der Diskussion über den Umgang mit dem Holocaust auf. "Es geht darum, dass von Seiten des Papstes und des Vatikans sehr eindeutig klargestellt wird, dass es hier keine Leugnung geben kann", sagte sie. "Diese Klarstellungen sind aus meiner Sicht noch nicht ausreichend erfolgt", so Merkel am Dienstag bei einer Pressekonferenz in Berlin.
Merkel betonte, dass sie normalerweise innerkirchliche Entscheidungen nicht bewerte oder kommentiere. "Allerdings ist das anders, wenn es um Grundsatzfragen geht", sagte Merkel. "Und ich glaube, das ist schon eine Grundsatzfrage, wenn durch eine Entscheidung des Vatikan der Eindruck entsteht, dass es die Leugnung des Holocaust geben könnte, dass es um grundsätzliche Fragen auch des Umgangs mit dem Judentum insgesamt geht", sagte Merkel. >>> Reuters/DPA/AP | Dienstag, 3. Februar 2009
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TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: Le Vatican considère close la question des évêques intégristes
POLÉMIQUE | Le secrétaire d’Etat du Vatican, le cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, a estimé mardi que la polémique concernant la réintégration d’un évêque intégriste ayant tenu des propos négationnistes "peut être considérée comme close".
Tarcisio Bertone a fait ces déclarations dans une interview au quotidien catholique Avvenire. "La Fraternité Saint Pie X a pris les distances avec son évêque et a demandé pardon au pape pour cet épisode embarrassant. Le pape a parlé clairement mercredi. Je pense que cette question peut être considérée comme close", a déclaré le numéro 2 du Vatican.
Mgr Richard Williamson, l’un des quatre évêques intégristes de la Fraternité Saint-Pie X dont l’excommunication a été levée par le pape fin janvier, a nié l’existence des chambres à gaz dans un entretien diffusé par la télévision suédoise. Il y a une semaine, le supérieur général de la Fraternité, Mgr Bernard Fellay, a demandé "pardon" au Pape et à "tous les hommes de bonne volonté". "Les affirmations de Mgr Williamson ne reflètent en aucun cas la position de notre société", a-t-il assuré. Le lendemain, au cours de l’audience générale du mercredi, le pape a exprimé sa "solidarité" avec les juifs et a condamné la négation de la Shoah. >>> ATS | Mardi 03 Février 2009
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MAIL Online: In our allegedly multicultural society, there is one religious group which is apparently not to be afforded equal respect, let alone treated for what it embodies - the foundational creed of this nation. That group is Britain’s Christians.
Somerset community nurse and committed Christian Caroline Petrie has been suspended and faces being sacked and even struck off for offering to say a prayer for an elderly patient. Although startled, the patient - herself a Christian - did not make a complaint and was in no way offended.
Nevertheless Mrs Petrie’s boss wrote to her saying she was required to uphold the reputation of her profession - which apparently means demonstrating ‘a personal and professional commitment to equality and diversity’ and not using her professional status ‘to promote causes that are not related to health’.
Apparently, Mrs Petrie previously received a warning about promoting her faith at work after she offered to give a prayer card to an elderly male patient.
Now there may be a valid point here about professionalism. Offering prayer cards comes close to touting one’s faith, which might well be thought inappropriate on the wards. But even so, one would have thought that a quiet word in the nurse’s ear would have been all that was necessary. Instead, Mrs Petrie was packed off to an ‘equality’ course for some diversity training.
This Orwellian response has now been followed up by the draconian action of suspending her with the possibility of outright dismissal from her job simply because she offered to pray for another patient.
Suspension and dismissal are sanctions to be used for mistreating or neglecting patients. Yet here they are being used against a nurse for offering to bring a patient a form of spiritual solace - which the patient was able easily to refuse and which caused her no problem. Is this not an utterly idiotic over-reaction?
I am a Jew; but when my mother was in the last stages of her terminal illness she was cared for by deeply devout Christian nurses who regularly prayed for her. Far from being offended by this, I was touched and comforted by this signal that they cared so much about her.
Moreover, this is not actually about upholding professionalism in nursing. It is all about foisting upon nursing the sinister and politically correct ‘diversity’ agenda – which means in effect treating Christianity as inherently offensive. >>> Melanie Phillips | Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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HÜRRIYET: VIENNA - Austria's far-right Freedom Party, or FPOe, announced Sunday it could soon join the European Parliament's right-wing faction, Union for the Europe of Nations, or UEN, following a meeting of far-right parties in Vienna.
"Europe is and must be more than the European Union. We all see the Lisbon Treaty as a major problem but Turkey's accession is also a great threat for Europe," FPOe leader Heinz-Christian Strache announced in a statement. [Source: Hürriyet] Agence France-Presse | Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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[T]he Iranian effort, which has been joined by Venezuela in a joint effort to establish a strong terror base in the region, is especially palpable in countries ruled by anti-American left wing regimes such as Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Bolivia.
Nonetheless, Iran has also increased its presence in Mexico and Colombia, which are considered more U.S. friendly. The rate of the increase of Iranian personnel in Mexican and Colombian embassies were described by the New York sources as "astronomical" and as "not proportional with the embassies' local requirements." Some believe that this increase is in fact in preparation for subversive activity.
In an exclusive report on the Iran-Venezuela cooperation, published by news Website Newsmax, a study conducted by Israel's Foreign Ministry is quoted as saying that 30 Iranian diplomats were dispatched to Nicaragua. A similar number was dispatched to Venezuela and other Latin American countries. >>> Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent | Thursday, January 1, 2009
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HAARETZ: Turkey's role in mediating the Israeli-Arab conflict has been compromised by its leader's repeated censure of Israel's recent offensive in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli government official said Monday.
"He won't mediate anything any more," the official said. "His stint as mediator between Israel and the Arabs is over, that's for sure. He won't be accepted as an honest broker by Israel at all."
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose Israeli policy. He said no official decision had to be taken, but that Israeli leaders spoke about Erdogan in such a way that made it clear they did not have faith in him as a mediator.
Any Israel discontent is directed at Erdogan personally, and should not be misconstrued as a rupture with Turkey, whose cooperation Israel values, he added. >>> Associated Press (Yoav Stern contributed to this report) | Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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THE STAR (TORONTO EDITION): Woman to appeal ruling forcing her to unveil face in sexual assault trial
A judge has ordered a Toronto woman to testify without her niqab at a sexual assault trial – raising the thorny issue of whether Muslim women should be allowed to appear as witnesses wearing a veil that covers everything but the eyes.
The issue is a collision of two rights, pitting religious freedom against the right of a defendant to face an accuser in open court.
The case could be precedent setting because it doesn't appear there is any Canadian case law addressing the question of Muslim women in the courtroom. In Canada, home to about 580,000 Muslims, the case will be closely watched, amid fears about Muslim women coming forward in criminal cases. >>> Betsy Powell | Monday, February 2, 2009
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TIMES ONLINE: The BBC announced today that it has no plans to use Carol Thatcher in her regular presenting slot after she used the racial epithet “golliwog” during an off-air discussion.
The daughter of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister, made the remark when discussing a tennis player in the green room after filming for the One Show, a daily magazine programme shown on BBC One.
After discussions held last night between Thatcher and the corporation, a statement was released this afternoon.
A spokesman for the corporation said: “There are no confirmed plans for Carol to be working on the One Show at the present time. It’s a very pressing matter for the BBC to get resolved and we are working as hard as we can to do so.”
Thatcher, who was crowned Queen of the Jungle in the 2005 reality series I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, has been a regular presenter on the series for three years and is described as part of the family on the BBC website.
She made the controversial remark during a discussion with the show’s host Adrian Chiles after filming. Thatcher was immediately challenged about the remark according to reports, but she only apologised yesterday dismissing the comment as a “joke”. >>> Nico Hines | Tuesday, February 3, 2009
MAIL Online: Furious Carol Thatcher Accuses BBC of Vendetta Against Her After Leaking of Golliwog 'Joke'
The Carol Thatcher race row intensified today as attention centred on who leaked her 'golliwog' remark.
Her agent pointed the finger at a member of the production team on BBC's The One Show and suggested that it was part of a vendetta against Baroness Thatcher's daughter.
Comedian Jo Brand, who was a guest on the show, denied that it was her.
The 55-year-old daughter of the former prime minister was axed by the corporation after she refused to apologise for using the term while describing a black tennis player thought to be Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Thatcher, a roving reporter for the programme, made her comments during a post-show conversation with presenter Adrian Chiles and several guests including Brand.
Today Thatcher's spokeswoman, asked on Talksport if she believed that this is a personal campaign against Thatcher, said: "That's what I believe, yes. It has been condoned by the producers of the BBC who haven't acted to discipline that member of staff."
She added: "This was a private conversation held in private, amongst individuals in the green room after she Carol Thatcher had been on The One Show. >>> By Daily Mail Reporter | Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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The Vatican has conceded for the first time that it may have made 'errors' in its rehabilitation of a British bishop who questioned the Holocaust.
A senior Vatican official acknowledged that the Holy See made "management errors" with its decision to lift the excommunication of Bishop Richard Williamson, who has said that the Nazis did not use gas chambers to kill and that a maximum of 300,000 Jews, not six million, lost their lives.
Pope Benedict XVI's decision to rehabilitate Bishop Williamson – without seeking the advice of his most senior advisers, according to Vatican insiders – provoked uproar around the world and forced the Vatican into damage control mode.
"I observe the debate with great concern. There were misunderstandings and management errors in the Curia," said Cardinal Walter Kasper, who is in charge of the Vatican department that deals with Jewish relations.
"The Pope wanted to open the debate because he wanted unity inside and outside," the German cardinal told Vatican Radio, referring to the Pontiff's desire to reconcile the ultra-conservative Society of Saint Pius X, of which Williamson is a member, with the rest of the Catholic Church.
Cardinal Kasper noted that although Bishop Williamson and three other bishops have had their excommunications lifted, "they are still suspended" from the mainstream Church.
The Vatican has argued that rehabilitating Bishop Williamson, who runs a church in Argentina, does not imply that it accepts or condones his views on the Holocaust.
But the affair has poisoned relations with progressive Catholics and Jewish groups around the world, leaving many with the impression that the Vatican did not give enough thought to bringing Williamson in from the cold. >>> By Nick Squires in Rome | Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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BLOOMBERG: Israeli Arabs committed treason by protesting the country’s offensive in the Gaza Strip last month. Hamas should be dealt with the way the U.S. handled Japan in the last days of World War II. Egypt, at peace with Israel since 1979, actually plans to attack.
These are just some of the recent comments made by Avigdor Lieberman, whose party could become the third-largest bloc in parliament following Israel’s Feb. 10 elections, polls show.
Lieberman’s jump in popularity may boost the coalition- building efforts of front-runner Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, while undermining prospects for peace with the Palestinians. Netanyahu’s lead over Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s ruling Kadima party has grown as Israel’s war in Gaza raised voter concern about security.
“With Lieberman in the wings, Netanyahu looks less hawkish,” said Uri Dromi, a political analyst who was a spokesman for former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. “He can say, look, the Likud is not so right-wing. It is about security.” >>> By Gwen Ackerman | Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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THE SPECTATOR: I have been travelling during the past few days and so have built up a bit of a backlog of events upon which I have not yet commented. One of these is the apparently gross abuse of Parliament by Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, which remarkably has not been covered at all in the mainstream British media. Another member of the House of Lords invited the Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who is currently facing prosecution in the Netherlands for his outspoken analysis of the Islamist war on civilisation, to screen his controversial film ‘Fitna’ in the Lords on January 29 and discuss his views.
But various representatives of the British Muslim community protested; and Lord Ahmed issued a threat that he would personally mobilise 10,000 Muslims to prevent Wilders from entering the Upper House and would take the peer organising the event to court. In the face of such threats, the meeting was cancelled. >>> Melanie Phillips | Tuesday, February 3, 2009
THE CHRISTIAN INSTITUTE: Lords 'Caved In to Muslims' Over Film
A House of Lords screening of a film linking Islam to violent extremism was blocked after pressure from Muslim groups, according to reports.
The screening, planned for last Thursday, was cancelled after a meeting between Lord Nazir Ahmed, senior House of Lords figures and Muslim leaders, according to a Pakistani news agency.
The Associated Press of Pakistan quotes Lord Ahmed terming the cancellation “a victory for the Muslim community”.
The decision to cancel the Lords showing was reportedly reached after Lord Ahmed met with the Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords and Leader of the House of Lords.
Representatives from the Muslim Council of Britain, British Muslim Forum and others from the British Muslim community were also present at the meeting.
The film, Fitna, was made by Dutch MP Geert Wilders. It juxtaposes quotations from the Koran with footage of terrorist atrocities and speeches by Muslim preachers. >>> | Tuesday, February 3, 2009
LIVE LEAK: Fitna
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RADIO NETHERLANDS WORLDWIDE: Rightwing populist Dutch MP Geert Wilders has enlisted one of the Netherlands' top lawyers to fight his prosecution over inciting hatred. The lawyer, Bram Moszkowicz, has confirmed he is taking the case to the country's Supreme Court, requesting an immediate end to the proceedings. He is calling for the Court to quash the prosecution order "in the interest of the law". The Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) is the country's highest judicial body. >>> By Rob Kievit | Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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BBC: Iran has launched its first domestically made satellite into orbit, state media reports.
TV commentary said Monday's night-time launch from a Safir-2 rocket was "another achievement for Iranian scientists under sanctions".
The satellite was designed for research and telecommunications purposes, the television report said.
Iran is subject to UN sanctions as some Western powers think it is trying to build a nuclear bomb, which it denies.
Tehran says its nuclear ambitions are limited to the production of energy, and has emphasised its satellite project is entirely peaceful.
The launch of the Omid (Hope) satellite had been expected and was clearly timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution, says the BBC's Jon Leyne in Tehran.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the satellite was launched to spread "monotheism, peace and justice" in the world.
But the launch could cause alarm in the West because of fears the technology could be used to make a long-range missile, possibly with a nuclear warhead, our correspondent says. >>> | Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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BBC: Saudi Arabia has issued a list of 83 wanted militants living overseas, calling on them to return to their home country and resume normal life.
All the suspects are Saudis, except for two men from neighbouring Yemen.
The kingdom has put many militants returning from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay or from Iraq through rehabilitation programmes.
But officials have acknowledged recently that some of these have rejoined armed groups.
Last month al-Qaeda's wing in neighbouring Yemen named two Saudis released from Guantanamo as commanders. >>> | Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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NRC HANDELSBLAD: The controversial rehabilitation of a Holocaust-denying bishop by pope Benedict XVI is arousing strong reactions in the Netherlands. A theologist is leaving the church and the minister of foreign affairs is getting involved.
Roman Catholic bishop Ad van Luyn of Rotterdam has said that the pope's decision to rehabilitate renegade British bishop Richard Williamson is "disastrous". Speaking on public television, Van Luyn said that Williamson's denial of the Holocaust and its gas chambers are "shocking, totally a-historic, and at odds with the second Vatican Council [the 1962-65 church reform - see below*]". Williamson has claimed that the Nazis did not kill six million Jews, but 300,000 at most.
Following his opposition to modernising the Roman Catholic church, bishop Williamson was excommunicated in 1988, together with three other traditionalist bishops who had turned against reforms. The pope reinstated the four conservatives last week, as part of his stated ambition to reunite all forms of Christian worship under the umbrella of Rome.
A professor of theology and ethics at the Roman Catholic Radboud University in Nijmegen is leaving the church over the issue. Professor Jean-Pierre Wils told Radio Netherlands Worldwide, "For many years it has been known that Williamson and the other three traditionalists are anti-Semites. The pope must have known about this. Only now are people beginning to see what is really happening in the Vatican. People were idolising the pope over the past few years without asking themselves what his political ambitions were. These are political actions, it's not just a theological problem. It is important that political consequences are drawn from this." >>> By Rob Kievit for Radio Netherlands Worldwide | Monday, February 2, 2009
*Traditionalists and the Roman Catholic church
The four bishops whose excommunications were remitted by pope Benedict XVI are Richard Williamson, Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, and Alfonso del Gallareta. They are the leaders of a schismatic society, the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) inspired by the late archbishop Marcel Lefebvre of Switzerland. Lefebvre, who died in 1991, founded the SSPX in 1970. It is named after pope Pius X, who firmly opposed modernism in the church.
The society rejects the Second Vatican Council of 1962-1965 which decided, among other things, that neither today's Jews nor the Jews of the time of Christ were all responsible for the death of Christ. The council also revised the liturgy, lifting some of the restrictions of the traditional Latin mass. Finally, the council aimed for pan-Christian unity (ecumenism) without requiring the conversion of non-Catholic Christians.
Traditionalists view the changes ordained by the Second Vatican Council as contrary to the interests of the church, and want to roll them back.
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L’EXPRESS: La presse israélienne comprend l'aspect "stratégique" de la décision du pape Benoît XVI qui, en revenant sur l'excommunication d'un évêque négationniste, veut résorber une longue querelle interne de l'Eglise catholique. Mais n'excuse nullement ce choix "pervers et peu judicieux" à l'égard des juifs.
En réhabilitant un évêque qui a tenu des propos négationnistes, le pape Benoît XVI provoque la colère des instances juives et de la presse israélienne.
Cette décision "peu judicieuse et perverse" démontre "l'indifférence morale" du Vatican et ouvre une "plaie profonde", souligne un éditorial du Jerusalem Post."Le pape n'avait sans doute pas l'intention de saper des décennies de progrès dans les relations entre juifs et catholiques... mais c'est ce qu'il a fait, finalement!"
Lever l'excommunication de Mgr Richard Williamson, pour qui les chambres à gaz nazies n'ont jamais existé, constitue en effet "un sérieux revers pour les relations entre les Juifs et le Vatican, et une claque pour la mémoire du pape Jean-Paul II qui avait beaucoup oeuvré pour combattre l'antisémitisme", estime le rabbin David Rosen, responsable des relations inter-religieuses à l'American Jewish Committee à Jérusalem, cité dans cet article. >>> Par Marie Simon | Lundi 02 Février 2009
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STERN: Vor knapp vier Jahren waren wir Papst - und stolz. Heute sind wir ernüchtert - und das zu Recht. Denn nach seinen jüngsten Aktionen dürfte auch dem letzten Wohlmeinenden klar sein: Selbst in Benedikt XVI. steckt nur der alte Josef Ratzinger. Und der hat mit einer liberalen Kirche nicht viel am Hut.
Wie glücklich wir waren! Denn Papst waren wir! Nicht einmal vier Jahre ist es her, da stand ein Deutscher auf der Loggia von Sankt Peter, grüßte ungelenk die Menge unten auf dem Platz wie einst Gerhard Schröder seinen Parteitag, und alle zusammen konnten es kaum fassen: Joseph Ratzinger, der "Panzerkardinal", der Großinquisitor mit dem unsicheren Hüsteln, der sich angeblich auf nichts so sehr gefreut hatte wie auf den nahen Ruhestand, war der neue Hohepriester der katholischen Kirche - und strahlte zufrieden. "Beeeee-ne-detto", riefen sie rhythmisch in Chören von unten wie noch kurz zuvor "Gio-vaaaaani-Paolo", als habe sich nur der Name des weiß gekleideten Mannes auf dem Balkon geändert. >>> Ein Kommentar von Frank Ochmann | Montag, 2. Februar 2009
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Monday, February 02, 2009
BBC: US President Barack Obama has warned that more US banks are likely to fail, as the full extent of their losses in the economic crisis becomes clear.
Speaking to NBC News, Mr Obama said "some banks won't make it" but stressed that people's deposits would be safe.
He has asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to draw up guidelines for banks receiving taxpayers' money.
Meanwhile, he warned of a "difficult next few days" as the Senate begins to debate his $800bn (£567bn) rescue plan. >>> | Monday, February 2, 2009
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