8 days after the controversial Olympic opening ceremony, the Vatican has spoken out. A statement was released, saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, the Vatican points out that an event like the Olympics should emphasize shared values rather than feature:<\/p>\n\n\n\n French bishops and even Muslim leaders such as the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, one of the most important Sunni representatives, had already spoken out on the matter. The Grand Imam said, \u201cShame on the perpetrators of this heinous abuse and those who accept it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n JRB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a week of controversy over the opening ceremony of the Olympics, the Vatican has condemned the \u201callusions that ridicule the religious convictions of many people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":70161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,27,24,25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6ftJo-so8f8","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcomunicatogiochiolimpicieng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcomunicatogiochiolimpiciint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70164,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70160\/revisions\/70164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cThe Holy See was saddened by certain scenes of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics and can only join the voices that have been raised in recent days to deplore the offense caused to many Christians and believers of other religions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201callusions that ridicule the religious convictions of many people. Freedom of expression, which is obviously not in question, is limited only by respect for others.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n