WORLDWIDE NEWS OF
RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE
FOR 2001-MAY
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2001-MAY-9: Tennessee: Youths create Holocaust
memorial: According to ReligionToday: 4
Students at a small middle school in Tennessee, with an overwhelming
white and Christian student body, studied the Nazi holocaust. They had
heard that many Norwegians expressed solidarity with Jews during World
War II when their country was occupied, by pinning paper clips to
their lapels. The students decided to collect six million paper clips:
each one representing a life exterminated by the Nazis. They will
house the collection in a 1940 era German railroad car. They are about
halfway to their goal of six million.
2001-MAY-9: Missouri: Church wins disability
caring award: According to ReligionToday: 4 The Christian Council on Persons with Disabilities (CCPD)
presented their 2001 Caring Church Award to the Central
Assembly of God church in Springfield, MO. They have a track
record of full inclusion of people with disabilities that can be
documented back to the early 1960s.
2001-MAY-27: Poland: Bishops apologize for
massacre of Jews: According to Associated Press:
About 100 bishops led by Cardinal Jozef Glemp, participated in an unprecedented
ceremony in which they apologized for past Roman-Catholic treatment of
Jews. They apologized both for a massacre of as many as 1,600 Jews by
Roman Catholics during World War II, and for other wrongs committed by
Catholics on their fellow citizens who were Jews. The mass crime
against humanity occurred during 1941-JUL in Jedwabne, a town in
north-eastern Poland. For many years, it was believed that the
slaughter was done by Nazis. The truth has only recently been
determined. About 2,500 people attended the service. Rabbi Michael
Schudrich, the leader of Poland's Jewish community said that the
ceremony had "the potential to be one more very important step"
in reconciliation between Polish Catholics and Jews. Unfortunately, he
was unable to attend the ceremony, because it was held during the
Jewish holy day Shavout.
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