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Italian Cardinal Condemns Anti-Semitism After Disruption of Online Event

Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, speaks during a press conference on the meeting with Mediterranean Bishops in Bari, Italy entitled "Mediterranean frontier of peace" on Jan. 22, 2020.

Daniel Ibanez
Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, speaks during a press conference on the meeting with Mediterranean Bishops in Bari, Italy entitled “Mediterranean frontier of peace” on Jan. 22, 2020.

During the Feb. 7 memorial event, the video stream was hacked, and anti-Semitic slogans, photos of Hitler, and pornographic and blasphemous images were displayed.