Posted on 05/04/2021 6:05:47 PM PDT by marshmallow
According to the most recent figures from France’s central criminal intelligence unit, 877 attacks on Catholic places of worship were recorded across the country in 2018 alone.
One religious building is disappearing in France every two weeks.
That is the conclusion of Edouard de Lamaze, president of the Observatoire du patrimoine religieux (Observatory of Religious Heritage) in Paris.
He is raising the alarm in the French media about the gradual disappearance of religious edifices in a country known as the “eldest daughter of the Church” because the Frankish King Clovis I embraced Catholicism in 496.
Lamaze’s appeal for increased awareness came after a fire destroyed the 16th-century Church of Saint-Pierre in Romilly-la-Puthenaye, Normandy, northern France. The fire, deemed accidental, took place on April 15, exactly two years after the blaze that devastated Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
The unforgettable image of the burning cathedral, which circled the planet in 2019, pointed to a deeper issue within French society: serious shortcomings in the preservation system of religious monuments, coupled with increasing hostility toward religion.
Lamaze told CNA in an interview that in addition to one religious building disappearing every two weeks — by demolition, transformation, destruction by fire, or collapse — two-thirds of fires in religious buildings are due to arson.
While these statistics include buildings belonging to all religious groups, most of them concern Catholic monuments, which still represent a large majority in France, where there are roughly 45,000 Catholic places of worship.
“Although Catholic monuments are still ahead, one mosque is erected every 15 days in France, while one Christian building is destroyed at the same pace,” Lamaze said. “It creates a tipping point on the territory that should be taken into account.”
Lamaze believes that on average more than two Christian monuments are targeted every day. Two-thirds.......
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicworldreport.com ...
We could smugly look over there and feel superior somehow, but you know it is on its way over here as well.
Did we ever find out what really happened to Notre-Dame?
Yup. islamic immigration is treason.
Because Mooslims.
Yep...the zipperheads torched it...next...
Its time for the military coup those generals were just warning about.
What is the muslim ratio at this point in France? I know some French people who think they are going to be on the brink of civil war soon if this nonsense keeps up. Feminism and multiculturalism is destroying France in real-time.
Coming soon to America once Biden imports the latest crop of Muslim terrorist refugees.
Any frenchman worth anything at all knows that if they do not take a stand—france will go the way of the copts in egypt.
How many mosques is France gaining every year?
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