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Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-12-24
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[01] Gov�t sharply condemns bishop's anti-Semitic statements
[01] Gov�t sharply condemns bishop's anti-Semitic statements
(ANA-MPA) -- Statements recently made on an Athens private television
station by Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus were sharply condemned on
Friday by the government through its spokesman, Giorgos Petalotis, who
referred to them as "unacceptable" and an insult to Greek culture.
"Such views are marginal, and an insult to Greece, our culture and
society, an integral part of which is the Greek Jewish community,"
Petalotis said, adding that "everybody should be aware that (such
comments) are flatly condemned by the Greek state and society."
Petalotis said that "it is not the government's role to judge and
comment on statements made by priests. However, it is its (the
government) obligation to condemn the language of hatred regardless of
who speaks it. It is its duty to stigmatise as unacceptable the
language that denies the Holocaust, the biggest crime against
humanity". (ANA-MPA)
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