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Your Voice Against Poverty' bans sculpture
The African women's NGO Rainbo has been forbidden to exhibit a controversial sculpture at the “Your Voice Against Poverty” event at the brink of the Thames in London on 2nd June. The ban has been decreed by BOND, the organiser of the event. Allegedly the ban is motivated by a wish to please the Christian organisations affiliated to BOND. The banned piece of art is a handsome bronze sculpture depicting a crucified pregnant teenager. The sculpture has been cast in various varieties as an accusation against the crusade launched by Christian fundamentalists against contraception and sexual education with President Bush and the Pope in the lead. The sculpture has been exhibited for a couple of months in front of the Lutheran Cathedral of Copenhagen in co-operation with the dean and the parish council who wanted to make a statement that not all Christian circles are supportive of the crusade of the Pope and the fundamentalists. Subsequently the sculpture titled “In the Name of God” has been exhibited in front of the Danish Women's Museum in Aarhus and at WSF2007 in Nairobi, Kenya. |
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