The image is in a public park
and was paid by the municipality. The authorities have three months to comply
with the court order.
The village of Publier in
eastern France will have to remove an image of Our Lady from a public park on
pain of paying a fine of 100 euros a day, according to the BBC.
A French court has ruled that the presence of the statue, which faces the waters of Lake Leman, violates the separation between Church and State.
The image of Our Lady of Leman was erected in 2011, paid by the municipality, and since then it has been in the center of some controversy, arriving at the court. The chamber now has three months to comply with the court order and the mayor has already stated that he will seek a private plot to place Our Lady.
France has one of the most rigid laws of separation between Church and State, but critics say that the state's insistence on removing all that is religious symbolism from the public square corresponds more to religious persecution. The country was the first to ban the use of religious clothing in public buildings, including schools, which affected mostly Muslim women wearing partial or full-face veils, but also Christians and Jews.
A French court has ruled that the presence of the statue, which faces the waters of Lake Leman, violates the separation between Church and State.
The image of Our Lady of Leman was erected in 2011, paid by the municipality, and since then it has been in the center of some controversy, arriving at the court. The chamber now has three months to comply with the court order and the mayor has already stated that he will seek a private plot to place Our Lady.
France has one of the most rigid laws of separation between Church and State, but critics say that the state's insistence on removing all that is religious symbolism from the public square corresponds more to religious persecution. The country was the first to ban the use of religious clothing in public buildings, including schools, which affected mostly Muslim women wearing partial or full-face veils, but also Christians and Jews.
This week Parliament passed a
law that criminalizes internet pages that seek to convince women not to abort
and last week the government has confirmed the ban on the transmission of an
advertisement aimed at women whose babies are diagnosed with trisomy 21 because
it could disrupt awareness who, in the same situation, had opted for abortion.
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