A petition organized by the European Center for Law and Justice (ECLJ) against the offence of Christian faiths at the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics has reached more than 11 thousand signatures in less than 24 hours.
ECLJ criticizes the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for its failure to advocate respect for all religious beliefs and for tolerating such a ceremony that seriously offends Christians.
“It is a hijacking of the opening ceremony for anti-Christian and woke propaganda purposes,” ECLJ stressed.
“The Olympic opening ceremony included a scandalous parody of the Last Supper, a sacred moment for Christians around the world. This mocking and obscene depiction, seen by hundreds of millions of people, is deeply offensive, especially to Christians,” reads the petition.
“Such a deliberately sacrilegious message has nothing to do with sport, nothing to do with France, and certainly nothing to do with the Olympic Games.”
ECLJ demands a “public and solemn apology from the organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympics for this grave offence, and not just vague justifications.”
“We demand that regulatory measures be taken to ensure that such scandals do not occur again. The IOC must check the content of the ceremonies in advance to verify, before they are held, that they comply with its regulations and values.”
Religious institutions such as the French Catholic Church, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC), Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church, other Christian faith followers and priests and many people around the world have denounced the offence against Christians during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic.
