Paris police beat believers for protesting against desecration of churches
Police dispersing protesting Catholics outside the church. Photo: a screenshot from the YouTube channel Néo Salva
Paris police dispersed a peaceful action by believers at the Saint-Laurent church. Law enforcers beat protesters, among whom were elderly women, reports the Life Site News.
Catholics gathered on the steps of the church for prayer and protest against blasphemous installations as part of the White Night festival. The parish leadership personally called the police to disperse parishioners who were defending the sanctuary.
The organizer of the city event was LGBTQ activist and singer Barbara Butch. This woman gained scandalous notoriety after parodying the Last Supper during the opening of the 2024 Olympics.
Historic churches in Paris housed exhibitions with voodoo cult objects and disturbing audio effects. In the Saint-Laurent Cathedral, organizers installed speakers near altars and confessionals to broadcast recordings of visitors' voices. In the chapel of the Tenon hospital, artist Stéphane Blanquet presented voodoo masks as part of the installation "Suffocating Jungles." The festival budget was one million three hundred thousand euros.
Journalists called the Archdiocese of Paris responsible for what happened. Without the consent of church authorities, occult projects could not have entered consecrated buildings. The Archdiocese of Paris did not provide explanations regarding the criteria for approving these exhibitions.
As the UOJ reported, a Canadian RCC cathedral hosted a hockey match broadcast with beer and pizza.
Read also
Ostapenko: Everyone in UCCRO feels fine except the “FSB UOC”
The director of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Reserve called the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches “a wonderful organization.”
Shevchuk: We had to convince world UOC ban does not violate religious freedom
The UGCC head claims that by banning the UOC, the state is not violating religious freedom but merely protecting the Church’s faithful from Moscow propaganda.
Lavra reserve head estimates damage to Dormition Cathedral at €15 million
Maksym Ostapenko said restoring the Dormition Cathedral would take at least a couple of years and require major funding.
DESS official says state should not govern the Church
A DESS official called for cooperation between the state and the Church for the benefit of citizens.
Poltava court upholds mobilization of Protestant pastor
A court in the Poltava region ruled that a prior criminal conviction and religious beliefs do not exempt a person from military service.
Ostapenko: Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra would not exist without Soviet-era reserve
The reserve director spoke about the Soviet museum’s role in saving the monastery, while stressing the need to rethink its history.