Ahlul Bayt News Agency ; The country's top Catholic bishop, Robert Zollitsch, stressed the action was 'unacceptable.'
He voiced concern that the 'entirely unacceptable provocation by a tiny (Christian) minority ' would strain relations between Christians and Muslims throughout the world.
Germany's Protestant church also joined in the criticism, calling the plans by US Pastor Terry Jones an 'unbearable provocation' which ran counter to Christian values.
An independent church in Germany who used to be headed by Jones also denounced his plans as 'violent and fanatical' on Wednesday.
'This plan of his deeply disturbs us. The very spirit that Jones says he opposes is what he is displaying himself: pro-violent and fanatical,' Stephan Baar, the deputy chairman of the Cologne-based church was quoted saying Wednesday.
Jones had founded the Cologne Community for fundamentalist Christians during the 1980s, however he was asked to leave in early 2008, after being convicted by a Cologne court for illegitimately using the title of 'doctor' years earlier and then coming under fire when linked to financial fraud at the church.
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