{"id":117796,"date":"2022-01-25T08:47:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T13:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=117796"},"modified":"2022-01-25T08:47:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T13:47:21","slug":"france-new-wave-of-attacks-on-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/france-new-wave-of-attacks-on-churches","title":{"rendered":"France: new wave of attacks on churches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new wave of vandalism of churches in France shows what church leaders have long <\/a>been trying to make clear to a less than receptive mainstream media: Christianity is under attack. These are not simple acts of vandalism, but deliberately anti-Christian gestures. In fact, in recent years there have been hundreds of attacks<\/a> on churches, robberies, desecrations and even church buildings set on fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As reported by the Spanish news site Religion en Libertad<\/em>, <\/a>in just one week three churches near, Paris, have been desecrated, not to mention the serious attack on the Saint-Denis basilica<\/a> in which a man, before being arrested, hit several statues and a shrine with a metal bar. The French periodical Famille Chretienne<\/a> <\/em>states that, in the night between January 9 and 10, two churches were the scene of robberies and desecrations. These are two buildings of worship belonging to the diocese of Saint-Denis. Nearby, on the night of January 6, the church of Saint-Germain in Vitry-sur-Seine (in the diocese of Cr\u00e9teil, in Val de Marne) was also desecrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On January 13, the French Minister of the Interior, G\u00e9rald Darmanin, announced<\/a> the establishment of a fund of four million euros to equip sacred buildings with video surveillance systems, precisely because of the new wave of attacks: “As Minister, my task is to protect” these places. So let’s increase the means to equip especially places of worship with video protection.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between January and October 2021, some 1,380 anti-religious acts (insults, vandalism, desecrations) were recorded in France, a figure down 17% from the previous year, says the French Ministry of the Interior Among these, 686 acts were directed against Christianime targets, where in 2019 there were 921, a decrease was 25%. The decrease is partly comforting, but sacrilegious acts in the once strongly Catholic France remain many, too many, and confirm a disturbing trend for the entire world that was once respected Christian culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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