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London (dpa) - The Anglican Church of Wales, in south-west Britain, Tuesday apologized for the publication of a magazine featuring a cartoon caricaturing the Prophet Mohammed.
A spokesman said Tuesday that 500 copies of the February edition of the Welsh-language church magazine "Y Llan" - Welsh for "Church" - had been withdrawn and its editor had resigned.
The Archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan, personally apologized to the Muslim Council of Wales over the cartoon, which accompanied an article about the shared ancestry of Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
The drawing - which was from the French magazine France Soir - showed the Prophet Mohammed sitting on a heavenly cloud with Buddha, and Christian and Jewish deities.
Morgan told the BBC: "The article was perfectly okay, but for some reason the editor decided to print one of these cartoons which was a gross error of judgement."
"It in no way reflects the policy of the church in Wales and when I saw it I was totally horrified", Morgan said.
At the height of worldwide Muslim demonstrations against the publication of the controversial cartoons in a Danish newspaper, the British media notably abstained from printing the images.
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