WORLD : Catholics Halt Plans to Move Nuns From Convent Abutting Auschwitz
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WARSAW — The Roman Catholic Church said today it has suspended plans to move nuns from a convent on the edge of Auschwitz, and it blamed a “violent campaign” being waged by some Jewish groups pressing for the move.
Cardinal Franciszek Macharski of Krakow said conditions do not exist for carrying out a 1987 agreement to relocate the nuns to an international prayer center, which has yet to be built.
Macharski blamed the suspension, which apparently is indefinite, on a series of protests by Jewish groups at the convent of Barefoot Carmelite nuns. Demonstrations outside the convent, constructed in a former theater just outside the camp wall, intensified this year after a February deadline for moving the nuns passed.
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