{"id":36056,"date":"2020-11-04T11:14:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T11:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=36056"},"modified":"2020-11-04T11:14:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T11:14:39","slug":"france-acn-denounces-radical-and-visceral-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2020\/11\/04\/france-acn-denounces-radical-and-visceral-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"FRANCE: ACN denounces \u2018radical and visceral attack\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The international head of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has expressed horror at the killing of three people just before the start of Mass in France \u2013 and called on world leaders to condemn the attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement made on Thursday, 29<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0October, Dr Thomas Heine-Geldern, international executive president of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) wrote:\u00a0\u201cACN is deeply shocked by the horrific attack which took place this morning in the Basilica of Notre-Dame of the Assumption in Nice, France, causing the death of three people, including the beheading of a woman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cACN denounces this outburst of violence, yet another terrorist act in France, and one more on the long list of crimes against Christians in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The assailant, Brahim Aouissaoui, was a 21-year-old Tunisian man who arrived in France shortly before the attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Heine-Geldern added: \u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with the victims, the injured, their families and the entire French Catholic community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAt the same time, we call on all political and religious leaders in the world to firmly and explicitly condemn this radical Islamist attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs the French bishops have written, these people have been attacked because they were in the church and because they \u2018represented a symbol\u2019 to be destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Heine-Geldern went on to say:\u00a0\u201cWe feel that these days Christians in Europe are caught between a radical and visceral attack on two fronts: one which wants to destroy their roots and to create a purely individualistic society without God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnd another which has been radicalised and wants to impose a fundamentalist Islamist system by force, sowing terror and violence as we have seen in Nice, abusing the name of religion and God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ACN\u2019s international executive president also called for respect for religious belief and decried the ridicule of the symbols of faith of any confession.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two people died in the church during the attack. A 60-year-old woman\u2019s neck was almost completely severed and the basilica\u2019s 55-year-old sacristan was also killed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Outside, a woman of 44 was stabbed, succumbing to her injuries shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/donate\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35565 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-300x44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-300x44.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-580x85.jpg 580w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-600x88.jpg 600w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The international head of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has expressed horror at the killing of three people just before the start of Mass in France \u2013 and called on world leaders to condemn the attack. 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