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JERUSALEM - On Christmas Eve, the entrance to the West Jerusalem YMCA was decked out in colorful lights against the night sky, and a Christmas tree sparkling with ornaments stood in the lobby. Jewish Israelis and international visitors, guests at the YMCA's popular restaurant, stopped to take pictures in front of the tree.

Just in time for Christmas, the Vatican is reminding the world just how Jewish the Christian religion really is.

Rabbi Baruch Frydman-Kohl reckons it was the first kosher meal ever served in the 190-year history of OttawaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, though itöÏÓãÊÓƵapp hard to say for sure. But the first meeting of the national Canadian Catholic-Jewish Dialogue certainly marked a new chapter in Christian-Jewish relations in Canada.

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has said that Catholics should witness to their faith but not undertake organized efforts to convert Jews, a significant step forward in the once tense relations between the two faiths.

JAFFA, Israel - Amid ongoing violence between Palestinians and Israelis, a school in this city seems more determined than ever to teach Arab and Jewish children about coexistence.

JERUSALEM - The church body authorized by the Vatican to oversee the Catholic ChurchöÏÓãÊÓƵapp property in Israel has asked IsraelöÏÓãÊÓƵapp attorney general to indict a Jewish extremist who, it says, recently incited violence against IsraelöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Christian churches.

JERUSALEM - An Israeli family experienced the surprise of a lifetime when, during a home renovation, workers discovered a 2,000-year-old Jewish ritual bath, called a mikvah.

JERUSALEM - The VaticanöÏÓãÊÓƵapp decision to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state has angered Israeli officials.

VATICAN CITY - Rome's retired chief rabbi, who played a key role in fostering closer ties between Jews and Catholics, died April 19 at the age of 99.

MARKHAM, Ont. - As they prepared for their baptism at Easter, adult catechumens at Chinese Martyrs parish got a taste of the Old Testament by participating in the Jewish ritual of the Passover Seder.

The biblical accounts of Jesus’ passion and death focus very much on His trial, describing it in length and in detail.

WARSAW, Poland - Catholic leaders joined in commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.2 million mostly Jewish prisoners were killed by the Nazis during the Second World War.

CANTERBURY, England - British Jews fear a return to the 1930s and question whether they have a long-term future in this country, according to a survey conducted by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism.

This is a good weekend to be a Catholic goat. Less so for Muslim and Jewish goats. Let us explain.

In the era in which Catholics saw their first Polish pope, the Church in France saw its first Jewish cardinal.