The RATP criticized for refusing to mention “the benefit of Eastern Christians “on a poster advertising a concert by The Priests, proposed on Saturday a new campaign mentioning the name of the beneficiary association, namely” L’Oeuvre d’Orient. “
The gesture of the RATP has yet not convinced Bishop Jean-Michel Di Falco Léandri, Bishop of Gap, and creator of the musical trio The Priests. “Everybody does not know what the Oeuvre d’Orient,” said he told AFP. “Is this is the word Christian burning their lips? It’s unbelievable, it does not satisfy us,” he said.
“The RATP, for the sake appeasement, and given the dire humanitarian situation faced by Christian minorities of the East in the current circumstances, decided to offer the possibility of a new poster campaign stating that it is made in favor The Work of the Association of the East “humanitarian association in support of Christian minorities, according to a news release.
The Paris transport company had created controversy by refusing to apply the word” benefit Eastern Christians “, posters announcing a concert by The Priests, boarded the subway of March 24 to 30.
The decision sparked misunderstanding in Catholic circles, who cry perversion of secularism and criticism from some politicians right.
“It’s not a dirty word, Christians of the East,” also noted Patrick Karam, Chairman of the Coordination of Christians Orient endangered (CHREDO) which has lodged an urgent application on Friday High Court of Paris in order to force the RATP and its advertising Metrobus to allow this mention. This summary should always be examined on Wednesday, he said.
“This issue must be a national consensus,” said he asked. “RATP believes that Eastern Christians are party to the conflict so that they are victims,” he added, saying the bus company “sinks in denial” and “the most odious cynicism “.
The RATP had invoked the” principle of neutrality of the public service “in” the context of armed conflict abroad “not to include that wording on 250 posters of the concert.
The company believes that “the record shows the increasing difficulties to apply the rules of neutrality and secularism in the RATP advertising space.”
“In these conditions, RATP has decided to set up a think-tank composed of unquestionable personalities to assess and clarify the principles that should govern the display, “said she announced.
In November 2012, the advertising of the RATP refused a poster campaign against Islamophobia, citing his religious
04/04/2015 7:53:45 p.m.. – Paris (AFP) – © 2015 AFP
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