SW News: Pope Francis has strongly condemned the rise in anti - Semitism in different parts of the world. While speaking during his weekly general audience at St. Peter’s square on Wednesday the Pope said that the Jewish people have suffered much in history and especially in the last century. He said that today the practice of persecuting the Jews has begun again. Pope Francis noted that even today there is no religious freedom for jews in some countries. In recent years there has been an increase in the number of attacks on the jewish people across Europe especially in Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium.