I NEWS I Commercial Real Estate REGENCY OFFICE CENTRE • 1,000 6,000 sq. ft. - Auschwitz Convent's New Building Unfinished London (JTA) — Funding problems are still holding up the relocation of a Carmelite convent from the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp in southeastern Poland, a senior Vatican of- ficial said here this week. Archbishop Edward Cassidy, president of the Vatican Commission for Re- ligious Relations With the Jews, could not say when the interfaith prayer and edu- cation center that is to house the convent would be com- pleted. "The building is well ad- vanced. Financial contribu- tions have come from out- side, including from the holy father," Archbishop Cassidy told British Jewish leaders during a conference here. "But it is a constant struggle to reach completion," he added. The Vatican is reported to have contributed $144,000 toward the project. The presence of Carmelite nuns at Auschwitz, where an estimated 1.4 million Jews perished during the Holo- caust, outraged Jewish opi- nion and led to sorely strain- ed relations between Catholics and Jews, which have only recently been repaired. As long ago as February 1987, the European Catholic cardinals pledged to world Jewish leaders that the con- vent would be relocated within three years. That deadline was not met. But construction began last year on a new complex, across the road and out of sight of Auschwitz, that will contain a cloistered convent. It is supposed to be com- pleted next year. Bishop Henryk Muszynski, chair- man of the Polish Episcopal Commission for Dialogue With the Jews, said during a visit to the United States last month that the first building of the complex would be dedicated in May or June. But Archbishop Cassidy could give no date. And in New York, Rabbi Leon Klenicki, who recently returned from a visit to the Auschwitz site, said the nuns "will move into their new cloister a year and a half from now." The structure of the con- vent has been completed, though the interior remains unfinished, said Rabbi Klenicki, who is director of interfaith affairs at the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. When asked why it would take 18 months to put down floors and install fixtures, Rabbi Klenicki replied, "Poland is not like America. It takes years and years to get things done." Israel Pressured To Free Sheik Obeid /— London (JTA) — Israel is facing mounting pressure from friendly governments in the West to free an ex- tremist Moslem cleric its forces captured in Lebanon two years ago. Their belief is that the release of Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid would bring about the freedom of Western hostages long held by Shi'ite groups in Leb- anon. Sheik Obeid, who was seized by Israeli commandos in July 1989, was spiritual mentor of a faction of Hez- bollah, the pro-Iranian Moslem fundamentalist movement that has waged guerrilla warfare against Israeli forces and their allies in southern Lebanon for years. Groups associated with Hezbollah are believed to be holding many of the Western hostages. British Prime Minister John Major appealed direct- ly for Sheik Obeid's release last week when he received Israeli Prime Minister Yit- zhak Shamir at No. 10 Downing Street. Mr. Major asked Israel's help after Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velyati hinted strongly that the release of 12 Western hostages, including three Britons, could be achieved if the West pressed Israel to free Sheik Obeid and several hundred other Lebanese prisoners it holds. A senior Israeli official here said Israel would be happy to help, but insists first that seven of its own soldiers, who are prisoners of war in Arab hands, are released and sent home. 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