Comments made by Archbishop Dadeus Grings of Porto Alegre. (Bad News).Comments made by Archbishop Dadeus Grings of Porto Alegre Porto Alegre Port and city(pop., 2005 est.: city, 1,386,900; metro. area, 3,978,263), southern Brazil. Located along the Guaíba River near the Atlantic Ocean coast, it was founded c. 1742 by immigrants from the Azores. It was first known as Porto dos Casais. , Brazil about victims of the Holocaust Holocaust (hŏl`əkôst', hō`lə–), name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany. have provoked protest from Brazil's Jewish population. Although originally published in 2001, Grings' remarks were reprinted recently on a Catholic Web site. He said there were 1 million Jewish Holocaust victims While victims of the Holocaust were primarily Jews, the Nazis also persecuted and often killed millions of members of other groups they considered inferior, undesirable or dangerous. (most historians agree the number is closer to 6 million) and that Christians were the "great victims." Israel's ambassador to Brazil lodged a complaint to the Vatican's nuncio NUNCIO. The name given to the Pope's ambassador. Nuncios are ordinary or extraordinary; the former are sent upon usual missions, the latter upon special occasions. to Brazil, while several rabbis complained, Catholic News Service reports. In a letter to the Brazilian bishops Grings said he was "surprised at the commotion since there was no reaction when I wrote the article two years ago." |
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