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Jewish group presents candelabra to Catholic cardinal in interfaith gesture

A Jewish group on Sunday presented a candelabra symbolizing Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust to a Catholic cardinal, a way of underlining positive changes in Jewish-Catholic relations in recent decades.

The candelabra has six branches, in memory of the 6 million Jews killed by German Nazis and their collaborators during World War II.
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