Tag: Spanish Inquisition

On November 1, 1478, Pope Sixtus IV issued the papal bull Exigit Sinceras Devotionis Affectus.

Many believe that Kol Nidre was created in response to the conversos’ plight and their need to nullify their conversion vows.

Spanish speaking descendants of Meronos (Jews who hid their Jewish identity during the Spanish Inquisition) want to return to their authentic origins and roots. What do they do now? On today's Israel Inspired with Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel.

If eligible, are their benefits to claiming Spanish citizenship?

Several Muslim families currently residing in North Africa are candidates for receiving Spanish citizenship.

Spain’s ruling Popular Party (PP) has submitted a draft law that could grant citizenship to descendants of Jews expelled from Spain during the Spanish...

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu presented  Pope Francis Monday with a copy of the book “The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain,” a...

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"In 1478 at the request of the Spanish sovereigns Ferdinand and Isabella, Pope Sixtus IV (1471-84) issued a papal bull allowing for the creation of the Spanish Inquisition.

The Heretic is a history of the early beginnings of the Spanish Inquisition in novelized form - a breathtaking tour de force that is both historically accurate and unusually entertaining, so that one can almost finish the nearly 400 pages in just two or three sittings.