The Government Prohibits the Procession of the Santa Faz to Bless the City.

Case information
Incident date
Country
Spain
Place
Alicante
Categories
  • Government Restrictions
Attack Against
  • Faith
Societal Sphere
  • Governmental
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
  • Censorship or Removal of Public Christian Symbols
  • Other (text field)
  • Contractual Freedom
  • Exclusion (of individuals or ideas)
  • Freedom of Religion
Place of Incident
  • Public Christian Symbol (outside place of worship)
  • Public Street
Bias Indicators
  • Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community
  • Time/Place/Location
Reported to Police
  • Unknown
Response of Local Authorities
  • Unknown
Symbolic image; not a photograph of the reported incident.Image credit: Ralph (Ravi) Kayden on Unsplash

The Subdelegation of the Government prohibited on the 17th April the Procession of the Santa Faz relic to bless the city, which would have taken place on the 23rd April. The reason was that the act was not covered by the regulations on the state of alarm for the Covid-19 pandemic. The mayor and priests proposed alternatives for celebrating the procession without danger of contagion. However, the Council has not approved it. In other historical pandemics, the celebration had taken place.

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