(In 1977, Mejía was named Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews).
An advocate for interfaith dialogue, Cardinal Martini served on the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations With the Jews.
The letter from the cardinal, who is president of the Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, was written June 21.
Last week, however, the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews issued a solemn renunciation: "the Catholic Church neither conducts nor supports any specific institutional mission work directed towards Jews".
In presenting that document, Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy, president of the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, said, "Whenever there has been guilt on the part of the Christians, this burden should be a call to repentance".
By James Carroll December 16, 2015 "The Catholic Church neither conducts nor supports any specific institutional mission work directed towards Jews," the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews said in a statement last week.
End Note) DCM said that Father Norbert Hofmann, Secretary of the Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with Jews, had told her the preceding week that the files from the entire papacy would be ready for declassification in about five years.
In 1999, the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations With the Jews and the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations, which represents the world Jewish community in dialogue with the Vatican (and of which I am chairman), jointly sponsored a special panel of scholars to study 11 little-known volumes of wartime documents published by the Holy See between 1965 and 1981.
Dr. Ibrahim's lawyers have said he is being accused of inciting sectarian strife through his seminars on religious relations and defaming Egypt by mentioning public apathy and past election fraud in the aborted film written by Mr. Salem about voting rights.
Mr Khader is widely admired these days as a constructive player in inter-religious relations.
