The Latest: UN says it will support France in rebuilding

AP ^ | 04-16-2019 | Staff

[Red Badger]

The United Nations says it will be supporting the French government in rebuilding fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral through its Paris-based cultural agency UNESCO

[Black Agnes]

“It becomes a mosque the first time they hold a prayer service in it, per their beliefs. Certain words must be uttered.”

An astounding number of mainline Christian churches (and even evangelical ones too) are now considered mosques by the 1B+ muslims of the world for precisely this reason.

[motor_racer]

It might belong to the Catholic Church. If so, the Church should rebuild it.

[headstamp 2]

I see the UN is looking to get in on the skim of rebuilding funds.

(Think oil for food)

[headstamp 2]

[[[Speaking Tuesday, he said the cathedral’s roof cannot be rebuilt exactly as it was before the fire because “we don’t, at the moment, have trees on our territory of the size that were cut in the 13th century]]]

Engineered lumber.

[Secret Agent Man]

It will not look good in un blue.

[ealgeone]

Under a 1905 law, Notre-Dame de Paris is one of 70 churches in Paris built before that year which are owned by the French state. While the building itself is owned by the state, the Catholic Church is the designated beneficiary, having the exclusive right to use it for religious purposes in perpetuity. The archdiocese is responsible for paying the employees, for security, heating and cleaning, and for ensuring that the cathedral is open free to visitors. The archdiocese does not receive subsidies from the French state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris#Ownership

Surprised me the Roman Catholic Church didn't own Notre Dame outright.

[j.havenfarm]

I’m thinking some sort of composite to reduce the weight. I should think the steeple can also come in under the 750 tons of the old one. Let’s cut those flying buttresses a little slack by reducing the force moving down the exterior walls

[Red Badger]

The roof was made of lead sheets, so the modern materials will take a lot of the weight off......................

[Red Badger]

Steel girders framed in wood-look planking to resemble the originals...................

[samtheman]

This is how you know it will be rebuilt as an ‘interfaith’ entity.
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yup

[samtheman]

I see the UN is looking to get in on the skim of rebuilding funds.
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I didn’t think of this. You are so right.

If cost of rebuilding = X

Cost of rebuilding with UN help = 10X

[colorado tanker]

The UN is on it. What a relief.

Paris is gonna need more prostitutes.

[ronnie raygun]

The faithless helping the faithless, they see this only as a tourist attraction and money nothing more, the local people surrounding are the ones who are devastated by this and of coarse the faithfull that visit

[moovova]

Taco Bell Tower.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It belongs to the state - to the govt. of France--- IIRC, because the Archdiocese of Paris could not afford the the requisite maintenance and repair, and France could not afford to let it crumble and lose it as a national cultural monument and tourist attraction. So it became a U.N. World Cultural site, concert venue and French Ministry of Heritage (or whatever) asset.

This is not unusual in these post-Christian cultural milieux.

However, it was still a working house of Prayer. A FReeper posted on one of these threads the daily and weekly prayer schedule: Masses, Liturgy of the Hours and so forth.

No Imams or Mullahs, no Salat, as far as I know.

[Charles Martel]

This is how you know it will be rebuilt as an ‘interfaith’ entity.

Indeed - there will be countless strings attached to any UN funding. France would do well to politely decline the offer.

[fruser1]

Given France’s 5 hour work week, it won’t be finished till the second coming.

[Revolutionary]

Wow! They are scared. Fear permeates the left as they expect a major backlash.

[fella]

The UN will help as long as it’s rebuilt as a mosque.

[The Duke]