A terror attack outside an Orthodox synagogue in Manchester, in the United Kingdom, on Yom Kippur, in which two Jewish worshippers were killed and others wounded, is an expression “of utter hatred that must not be tolerated in this land,” according to Cardinal Vincent Nichols, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.
“That such an attack is directed at the Jewish community, and on Yom Kippur, this most solemn of days, shocks me to the core,” the cardinal stated, according to Vatican News, an official Holy See publication.
“Jewish and Christian people are closely bound together in our common faith in God,” according to the cardinal. “Indeed, in the Catholic tradition, Jewish people are held to be the ‘elder brothers’ in faith of our Christian family.”
