بريطانيا: النصارى يعترضون على تحويل كنيسة إلى مسجد

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

تقدَّم عدد من النصارى بعريضة إلى المسؤولين تحمل توقيع 5000 نصراني للاعتراض على خطط تحويل كنيسة مستشفى شمال "مانشستر" العام إلى مسجد، وذلك بتغيير نظام القاعات المخصصة للشعائر الدينية التي تسمح للنصارى واليهود بالصلاة، بحيث تسمح للمسلمين أيضًا بممارسة شعائرهم.

وقد أشار فريق مسؤولي الرعاية الروحية في خطابه إلى الأبرشيات أنه سيتم إغلاق كنيسة الروم الكاثوليك وتحويلها إلى مسجد؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Christian hospital chapel to be turned into Muslim prayer room - 5000 protest

Nearly 5,000 people have signed a petition protesting against plans to turn a Christian hospital chapel into a Muslim prayer room.

The Spiritual Care Chaplaincy team at North Manchester General Hospital intends to change the way the Catholic Chapel of Saint Raphael is currently used in order to create a Muslim prayer room, the Catholic Herald reports.

Worship space will also be provided for Jewish people and Christians and there will in addition be a "quiet room" for people of no faith at all. However there will be no space that is specifically Catholic.

St Raphael's Chapel currently contains the Blessed Sacrament and Mass is celebrated weekly. According to a petition launched by Father Ged Murphy of St Patrick's and St Malachy's parish in Collyhurst, the chapel is well used and highly valued by patients, staff and visitors as a "valued resource which is much needed when people are at their lowest ebb."

In a letter to parishes, the Catholic chaplaincy at the hospital said: "We write to inform you of a proposal by the spiritual care chaplaincy Team at North Manchester General Hospital to close the Roman Catholic Chapel of St Raphael in order to convert it into a Muslim prayer room.

"Worship spaces are going to be provided for Muslims, Jews, and Protestant Christians, and even a 'Quiet Room' for people of no faith at all. Yet it is proposed that Catholics should have no space of their own.