Bitter Winter A magazine on religious liberty and human rights 09/14/2021Daniela Bovolenta A+ | A- The Protestant temple of Behren-lès-Forbach (credits).Vandalism of Christian churches continues in France. While perpetrators are rarely identified, or their motives ascertained, the number of incidents indicates an epidemic of such attacks, whose growth is alarming. On August 27, unknown vandals set fire to the basement room of the Protestant church of Behren-lès-Forbach, in the northeastern French region of the Moselle. Happily, firefighters intervened on time and the fire was contained, although the room can no longer be used for parish activities. The Protestant temple of Behren-lès-Forbach was built in the 1960s to serve the local miners. After the mines were closed at the end of the 20th century, the Protestant community declined, and during the COVID crisis regular services were no longer held, although the community still met occasionally. Vandals might have believed that the temple was disaffected, although in fact it wasn’t. Minister Darmanin’s tweet.French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin denounced the attack in a tweet, and promised effective action to identify the perpetrators. As in other similar cases they may, however, never be discovered. Known for its criticism of the Catholic Church and the discriminations it had to endure from the Bavarian government even in the midst of the most horrible persecutions The Director of Hospital México had removed the image in the name of religious freedom of non-Catholics Anti-cultists believed that by reproducing an article by “Charlie Hebdo” they could refuse to correct their defamatory statements CESNURVia Confienza 1910121 TorinoItalyinfo@bitterwinter.org Copyright © 2025 · Bitter Winter · PRIVACY POLICY· COOKIE POLICY