A Catholic bishop in western Germany compared the treatment of late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to the trial of Jesus before the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, in comments to mark the Easter holiday of Good Friday. According to the Bible, Jesus was presented to the people and then taken back inside the governor’s palace, where he was hidden from public view. “When the Russian dissenter and fighter for freedom and peace, Alexei Navalny, died weeks ago, this is exactly what came to my mind,” Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck said on Friday at a former colliery in Bottrop, north of Essen, according t…