{"id":281388,"date":"2016-12-03T08:52:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T13:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281388"},"modified":"2020-10-29T09:00:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T13:00:22","slug":"french-town-told-parks-virgin-mary-statue-must-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/french-town-told-parks-virgin-mary-statue-must-go\/","title":{"rendered":"French town told park\u2019s Virgin Mary statue must go"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Excellent news! They should also remove all \u201cChristian\u201d crosses from the top of the mountains!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A French town has been told it must take down its statue of the Virgin Mary to comply with a national ban on religious symbols in public spaces, the town&#8217;s mayor said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A court has given the town of Publier, in eastern France, three months to remove the work.<\/p>\n<p>If it fails to do so, it will be fined \u20ac100 (\u00a380; $105) a day.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Gaston Lacroix said he will try to relocate the marble statue on private land.<\/p>\n<p>The image of the mother of Jesus has been standing on the shores of Lake Geneva since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>It has been the subject of local controversy for some years after it was paid for with municipal funds.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to remove the statue has been criticised on social media, with some wondering whether freedom of expression had been curbed.<\/p>\n<p>France has long had strict rules ordering the separation of church and state.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, it became the first country in Europe to prohibit the wearing of face-covering Muslim veils in public spaces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-38196238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-38196238<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Excellent news! They should also remove all \u201cChristian\u201d crosses from the top of the mountains! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}