European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:48:42 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Court overturns sentence of feminist who simulated aborting Jesus on Catholic altar https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/10/31/court-overturns-sentence-of-feminist-who-simulated-aborting-jesus-on-catholic-altar/ Mon, 31 Oct 2022 06:53:41 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=153521 The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recently overturned the ruling of a French court that had fined and issued a jail sentence to a feminist who interrupted a Roman Catholic church service and "aborted" Jesus on the altar while topless. Eloïse Bouton was bare-breasted and painted in pro-choice slogans all over her body when, Read more

Court overturns sentence of feminist who simulated aborting Jesus on Catholic altar... Read more]]> The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recently overturned the ruling of a French court that had fined and issued a jail sentence to a feminist who interrupted a Roman Catholic church service and "aborted" Jesus on the altar while topless.

Eloïse Bouton was bare-breasted and painted in pro-choice slogans all over her body when, in December 2013, she interrupted Christmas carols at Paris' famous Madeleine church and protested the Catholic Church's teachings against abortion by simulating an abortion of Jesus.

Wearing a crown of thorns to mock Jesus Christ and a blue veil to deride the Virgin Mary, Bouton carried pieces of ox livers to symbolize an aborted baby as she stood in front of the church altar and pretended to perform an "abortion" before urinating on the ground in front of the congregants.

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