Friday, August 14, 2015

France: Catholics are Under Police Protection for the Feast of the Assumption



Terror Prevention on Feast of the Assumption

Paris (kath.net/ idea.de )) - The Catholic churches in France are under increased police protection for the prevention of terrorist attacks. The event: On August 15, Catholics celebrate "The Assumption" where about 150,000 visitors are expected just in the Parisian cathedral of Notre Dame alone.

The Catholic Bishops Conference recommends that churchgoers be particularly vigilant and to leave no bags unattended during the Mass. On the same day the Catholic churches will also ring their bells at 12 noon in solidarity with the persecuted Christians of the Middle East. Already in April the French police intensified the protective measures for 178 churches, after a terrorist attack in the Paris suburb of Villejuif had been frustrated. In January, the security level for Catholic and Protestant churches and synagogues and mosques had been increased as a result of attacks on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket. Of the 65.8 million inhabitants of France approximately 64.3 percent are Catholics, about 4.3 percent are Muslims, about 1.9 percent are Protestants, about one per cent Buddhist and 0.6 percent Jewish. The rest are mostly without a confession. Link to kath.net... Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com AMDG
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 14, 2015 at 9:00 PM

    4.3% only? I doubt that highly having travelled widely in France and married to a French citizen. Probably more like 10 to 20%

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    1. LyndaAugust 15, 2015 at 5:42 AM

      I thought there were at least 8 million Muslims. And the vast majority of baptised Catholics are apostate.

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  2. GabrielAugust 15, 2015 at 11:57 PM

    Apostate? Please prove the claim otherwise people might think that this is just another baseless assertion.

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  3. BarnumAugust 17, 2015 at 9:26 PM

    Feybriel,

    The trick horse that can add 2+3 in the famous act has a better grasp of arithmetic than you have, especially subtraction. Also, logic, horse sense, knowledge of history as well as current affairs, theology, and gastronomy.
    Please prove your assertion of "baseless assertion," mon vieux.

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