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After Celebrating a victory over the removal of sacrilege videos on YouTube, Catholics were quickly shocked back to reality when the online video portal reposted the videos and reinstated their originator.

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By
Christian Newswire (www.christiannewswire.com)
10/2/2008 (1 decade ago)

Published in U.S.


SPRING GROVE, PA (Christian Newswire) -- Host desecration videos originally pulled from YouTube have been reposted. The America Needs Fatima campaign is sickened by this blasphemy and has collected 18,201 signatures on a protest petition in just 7 days.

The 40 separate desecration videos -- originally posted in mid-August -- showed the Host being flushed down a toilet, stomped on and fed to ducks, among other sickening spectacles.

In response to the America Needs Fatima petition, the desecration videos were pulled from YouTube on October 1, but were reposted the same day.

Robert Ritchie, director of America Needs Fatima, explained: "As Catholics, we believe the Host is the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ. Witnessing the desecration of the Host causes anguish to Catholics all over the world."

Ritchie added: "In the past, YouTube has removed videos offensive to Jews and members of other religions, including one showing a teenager urinating on a Holocaust memorial. Why can't Catholics be afforded the same respect for our deeply held beliefs? "

"The desecration of the Host is not an acceptable form of free speech. The only message it conveys is one of unremitting hatred," Ritchie said.

Go to www.AmericaNeedsFatima.org/yt/ to sign and send a petition protest to YouTube.

Or convey your own protest message in a polite yet firm manner to YouTube by calling (650) 253-0000 or FAXing (650) 253-0001.

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