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FEMEN activist ‘kidnaps’ Baby Jesus from Vatican nativity scene
Published time: December 25, 2014 21:08
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from Ruptly video
A
topless FEMEN protester tried to kidnap Baby Jesus from the manger at St.
Peter's Square in Vatican City after the Pope's Christmas message on Thursday.
The activist was stopped and arrested in front of shocked believers.
With the words “God is woman” painted
across her naked chest, the activist squeezed though a hole in a fence surrounding
the nativity scene.
The
woman rushed to the manger in the center of the square, grabbed the Jesus
figurine, and raised it above her head while shouting slogans against the
Catholic Church. However, a Vatican guard was quick to block her. The activist
was quickly covered with a coat and handed over to police.
The
Jesus figurine was unveiled by the Pope during the Christmas Eve mass on
Wednesday.
The action was in protest against “the
centuries-old Vatican stance on women's rights for own body and reproductive
function,” the group's webpage states. FEMEN has announced an
anti-clerical "Massacre of the Innocents" campaign,
calling for the stealing of Baby Jesus from churches around the world.
“The maniacal desire to control women's
fertility is a common trait of many religions, National Socialism, nationalism
and other antediluvian, anti-humanist ideologies. Abortion is sacred,” the group says on
its site.
This
is not the first time that FEMEN has targeted Vatican City. On November 14,
several topless women protested in St. Peter's Square against Pope Francis’
visit to the European Parliament in
Strasbourg. Their slogan that time was “The
pope is not a politician, god is not a magician.”
FEMEN is a radical feminist protest group founded in
Ukraine in 2008. The group is now based in Paris. The organization has become
internationally known for its topless protests against religious institutions,
sexism, homophobia, and other social, national, and international issues.
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