News story Frames Christians Negatively for no Reason

Country: France

Date of incident: October 28, 2019


The News Site "20 Minutes" included the picture of a Christian gathering to illustrate a survey on the feelings of French women towards the "threat against secularism", published in "Le Journal du Dimanche" on 26 October. The survey showed a majority of people in favor of banning street prayers together with a photograph showing a gathering of Christians, subtitled "Those polled are particularly opposed to prayers in the street". In reality, the survey was conducted to explore the issues of secularity with Islam in France.

The news site "20 Minutes" later changed the image for a picture that does not show any particular religious group. 

Sources: 20 Minutes, Le Journal du Dimanche, Christianophobie

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