Hi guys you’re welcome back thanks for clicking France churches turned into musk so let’s watch guys there’s a small Catholic Community in the heart of France that has too little money and too many churches it’s vone on the Sher River the Church of the Holy virgin is located in the historic town
Center a few hundred meters away stands the Church of St John the Baptist and a few blocks further we find St Celestine there’s been no resident priest here for Ages and then there’s the Church of St alowishus father Alan KRA is rarely here because he’s responsible for the entire Parish of Von we have six Church churches in Von in all but the number of residents has gone from 35,000 to 27,000 and the number of practicing Catholics has sharply declined in the
Last three decades this church was consecrated in 1955 but we don’t need it anymore so we want to sell it they found a perspective buyer right away the local Muslim Community needed a place to worship they have plenty of members right now they pray in a one
Family house that’s filled to the brim it’s not just the old immigrants from the mreb who worked in the factories that come here they’re joined by their children and grandchildren few want to be interviewed buying the church is a controversial issue we simply don’t have enough space no proper place to
Pray we’re packed in it wasn’t really a matter of going out to buy a church we just want to enlarge our congregation the possibility that a French Church could become a mosque made headlines in the French conservative media and triggered outrage Muslims were suddenly reviled on internet forums for expropriating Christian
Space but father Kraut was pleased to have a buyer for the church when Muslims say they don’t have enough space to pray with proper dignity then I think it’s a good idea to turn a church into a place for Muslims to Worship the priest asked his congregation about selling the church including those who still come to St alowishus once a week to pray in a side chap most of the parishioners agreed with the sale I think it would be a good thing that the church be used for prayer
Again Christians and Muslims have the same God it’s not the same religion but we have much in common but others couldn’t accept the idea of muslims praying in a former Christian Church I think it would be better if they set up a mosque someplace else in town because if the Christians keep giving
Ground then we’ll lose our faith and identity after all France is a Christian country for the sale of the church would not have a happy ending in neighboring bourge the arch dasis respond responsible for the church got involved and decided instead to sell the church to a charity the bishop Justified the
Decision by saying the Paris space charity was non-denominational this even though it’s called the fraternity of St alowishus and is dedicated to the same Saint as the church in Von they’re collecting donations to buy the building their motto stop the mosque makes their position clear we’re opposed to buring the church
Into a mosque christenings weddings and funerals were once held there now that’s all going to be wiped away the church will be something else entirely we’ve gathered thousands of signatures from all over France and from Canada and Switzerland some people even send money most say Bravo keep it up the arch dasis in bourge isn’t talking to the the media father kout however says he feels the fraternity went behind his back and fears that the rift between Christians and Muslims in France will only be worsened by the group’s
Campaign I disagree strongly with using slogans like that to raise money I’m bitter about it coming to this and the local Muslim Community is disappointed a lawyer from Von mun Liam didn’t expect this kind of response he says it would be possible to convert a church into a mosque because the
Building wouldn’t have to remain a mosque for all eternity I thought religion was supposed to promote peace how could they stoop so low and use insults like that they spit in your face just because you’re a Muslim you’re treated like a terrorist it’s Regrettable the fraternity of St alawishes has been given 6 months to raise the money to buy the church and the chances are good that they’ll succeed but they shouldn’t expect help from the parish priest wow like the pr said the population in France is coming down and a lot of people are actually
Leaving the Fai of Catholic Church they are going to Anglican Church Pentecostal Church Church es so that’s is the reason why they felt the need to sell the church because members are are decreasing most members are left and you know well I thought they could evangelize more in getting you know
Members in the church from there things would change there are tough times there are good times in every human life in every situation we have tough time we have good times I believe that was the church tough time and they should have just persevered a little little bit
Longer but regardless it was not really bad for them to sell the church to much even though it sound weird because you know two religions are quite are very different when it comes to worship when it comes to them praying and worshiping so the Catholic priest was cool with it
As long as it’s still going to be meant for worship the building is going to be meant for worship and they just want the the church to be and you could see that the members were very very low so when the priest told the members majority of
Them agreed even one old woman was like you see we are all serving the same God that’s what we believe and there are lot of similarities so it would be best for the church to be used not to be turned into a mosque at least is a place of
Worship and you know the population of Muslims in France is increasing and France is mostly a Christian country but now Islam is taking over in the the country is well that’s all guys thank you so much for watching guys SM subcribe for more like sh comment I’ll see in the next one bye
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