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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Will you ask the Red Crescent to remove crescents? If not, why not? Is it because you don’t want your head removed from your body?
Nothing slanderous about it. When people opened their wallets to the victims of the terrorist attacks on 9/11/01, The Red Cross sent the donations to Afghanistan. I will never donate another penny or drop of blood to those thieves.
Huh?
What are they going to do with the cross, the Red one?
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In our local Catholic Hospital, they have a crucifix in every patient room. All was well -—— until we began to have a LARGE influx of Somalians who are Muslim. Broken crucifixes in waste baskets has become a frequent consequence. I’m speaking of between 50-100 broken crucifixes so far.
The local Catholic hospital had similar problems due to the nearness of dearbornistan. They bought sturdy wooden crosses and nailed them to the wall near the top and out of reach. Problem solved.
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i dunno, mon. Would you accept a donut
from the Red Crescent?
Their excuse is that if they spent the current donations on current disasters, there might not be any left for future disasters, like the CEO’s bonus.
That's it! They can just have a red chicken instead of a red cross.
That’s the rumor
Did anybody show proof that the specific dollar they donated went to Afghanistan?
It’s more than a rumor. It’s the truth. And I’m pretty sure you know that.
What’s your stake in pulling the wool over people’s eyes? What benefit do you get from people not believing the truth? Sounds like you have a connection to the Red Cross/Red Crescent.
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