Posted on 12/05/2017 5:30:20 AM PST by blam
Volunteers have criticised the Red Cross charity after receiving a communication telling them to remove crucifixes from the walls of their branches as the organisation looks to become more secular. The Belgian branches of the international aid organisation received an email from the Provincial Committee of the Red Cross in Liège to remove all crucifixes. André Rouffart, president of the Red Cross in Verviers, said: “We were asked to respect the principles of the Red Cross”, and not to distinguish between race or religious belief 7sur7 reports.
Mr. Rouffart said there had been pushback from volunteers and other members on the issue but downplayed the issue, saying: “I think it’s a storm in a teacup.”
Several volunteers spoke to Belgian broadcaster RTL and expressed hostility to the move, with one saying: “Let things remain as they are. We used to say ‘Christmas holidays’, now it’s ‘winter holidays’. The Christmas market in Brussels has become the ‘Winter Pleasures’.”
“For a certain part of the population — because of the Muslims — the crosses were removed in the Red Cross houses and, more particularly, in that of Verviers,” the volunteer added.
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RED CROSS WON'T RELEASE HARVEY RELIEF NUMBERS, CONTINUING A LONG, TROUBLING TREND
This story is recent, but that trend is not. That troubling trend is why we haven't donated to the RC in years.
I would do both.
I don’t blame you, but I always feel that nobody likes a complainer. Just stop volunteering and tell them why you’re making that decision.
Is this headed in the direction of changing the name and logo to The Red X ?
LOL, . . . you just hinted about you age. the Cycle or syth was part of the Soviet flag the CCCP
LOL, . . . you just hinted about you age. the Cycle or syth was part of the Soviet flag the CCCP
Agreed.
They need to change their name.
Luke 9:26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.
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Businesses are allowed to change their decor and menu.
I stopped donating when they went PC on the donor questions.
“Have you had sex in the Sudan with 5 or male partners in the last week? Move to the head of the line!”
IF they MUST comply, replace the “offensive?” items with RED CROSSES!
On a side note, I would partially agree if it were just “crucifixes”.
1. Christ isn’t on the cross, why depict Him as if He still were. It should be an “empty” cross, just like the “empty” tomb.
2. Crucifixes are graven images amounting to “idols”.
Like I said, make them RED!
Of course it was. Everything these days is to appease muzzies.
Red Cross been off our donate-to list for a couple decades.....
Yes, get rid of crucifixes first, then the crosses, including the one in their own logo, because it’s a secular organization, right?
Exactly. then they’ll have to change their name to “The Red Nothing Offensive To Anybody”.
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