{"id":70842,"date":"2020-11-09T13:12:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T13:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=70842"},"modified":"2020-11-10T15:57:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T15:57:23","slug":"muslim-volunteers-protect-church-in-france-after-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/70842-muslim-volunteers-protect-church-in-france-after-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim volunteers protect church in France after attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/photo_2020-11-09_19-05-47-3-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/photo_2020-11-09_19-05-47-3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/photo_2020-11-09_19-05-47-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/photo_2020-11-09_19-05-47-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/photo_2020-11-09_19-05-47-3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/photo_2020-11-09_19-05-47-3.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>A group of French Muslims volunteered to stand guard outside their town\u2019s cathedral to protect it and show solidarity with Catholic churchgoers.<br>Local Muslim residents in the southern French town of Lodeve organized the initiative as a gesture of peace after a deadly terrorist attack on a church in the French city of Nice. They stood guard outside the Lodeve cathedral for the All Saints\u2019 holiday weekend, and hope to do the same for Christmas.<br>The cathedral\u2019s priest and churchgoers welcomed the gesture, which also comes amid tensions between France and the Muslim world.<br>\u201cIt\u2019s very good, these young people who are against violence,\u201d the cathedral\u2019s priest, the Rev. Luis Iniguez, told the AP.<br>When a local newspaper published a photo of parishioners posing with their Muslim guards, Iniguez hung it inside the Gothic cathedral, which serves as an anchor for town life. \u201cPeople were happy to see that,\u201d he said, especially amid recent concerns about tensions between France and the Muslim world, on top of ongoing fears of the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of French Muslims volunteered to stand guard outside their town\u2019s cathedral to protect it and show solidarity with Catholic churchgoers.Local Muslim residents in the southern French town of Lodeve organized the initiative as a gesture of peace after a deadly terrorist attack on a church in the French city of Nice. 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