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Red Cross Demands Branches Remove Crucifixes To Be More Secular
Breitbart ^ | 12-5-2017 | Chris Tomlinson

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antichristian; charity; christians; crucifix; downthememoryhole; islamicimperialism; redcross; religion; revisionisthistory; secularization; stalinisttactics; waronchristmas
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To: blam

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?


41 posted on 12/05/2017 9:35:21 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Thibodeaux

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.


42 posted on 12/05/2017 9:38:59 AM PST by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: blam

Huh?

What are they going to do with the cross, the Red one?

5.56mm


43 posted on 12/05/2017 9:41:43 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: M Kehoe

44 posted on 12/05/2017 9:45:16 AM PST by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: Celtic Conservative

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.


45 posted on 12/05/2017 11:08:18 AM PST by Gumdrop (She made her bed and is now lying in it.)
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To: Gumdrop

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.

CC


46 posted on 12/05/2017 11:11:31 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (It don't matter if your heart is in the right place, if at the same time your head is up your a$$)
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To: Thibodeaux

i dunno, mon. Would you accept a donut
from the Red Crescent?


47 posted on 12/05/2017 1:11:18 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: BykrBayb

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.


48 posted on 12/05/2017 1:14:44 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: a fool in paradise
But they did just that when they switched from Kentucky Fried Chicken to KFC.

That's it! They can just have a red chicken instead of a red cross.

49 posted on 12/05/2017 1:55:58 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: BykrBayb

That’s the rumor

Did anybody show proof that the specific dollar they donated went to Afghanistan?


50 posted on 12/06/2017 4:30:36 AM PST by Thibodeaux (2018 is looking good)
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To: Thibodeaux

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.


51 posted on 12/06/2017 6:09:56 AM PST by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
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