translate English to French: Looking back over this century, we are deeply saddened by the violence that has enveloped whole groups of peoples and nations. We recall in particular the massacre of the Armenians, the countless victims in Ukraine in the 1930s, the genocide of the Gypsies, which was also the result of racist ideas, and similar tragedies which have occurred in America, Africa and the Balkans.
L’Église regarde avec un profond respect et une grande compassion l’expérience de l’extermination, la Shoah, que le peuple juif a endurée au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.