The Spanish Christian Lawyers Foundation has denounced an animalist group that recreated a piety replacing Christ with a “bull”, to protest against bullfighting during the San Fermín festivities in Spain.
In the Spanish city of Pamplona a bullfighting fair is held every year on the occasion of the holidays in honor of San Fermín, patron of the region, whose fights in the afternoon are preceded by the famous enclosures every morning.
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The protest action Against the death of bulls in the course of the different forms of cultural expression related to the Bravo Toro was carried out by members of the Anima Naturalis Foundation.
The activists made a representation of the evangelical scene of La Piedad, in which the Virgin Mary holds after the descent of the cross the inert body of Christ, which was replaced by a man disguised as a bull.
The person disguised as the mother of God has a sign with the legend “Bulls are sin”.
For the entity of jurists, this act could incur a crime of escarnio, typified in the Spanish Criminal Code, understanding that “Performance means comparing God with a field animal and mocking the suffering of the Virgin by her son.”
For the foundation of jurists, “there is no doubt about the sacred character that, for Christianity, involves recreating one of the most iconic and painful images of the Bible, and is the death of the Lord, and the pain of the Virgin Mary who sees her dead son,” he details in a statement sent to the media.
“It is an act of escarnio because publicly undermines and dishonors what the faithful consider sacred, causing a deep offense to their religious feelings,” they insist from the Foundation.
The president of Christian lawyers, Poland Castellanos, denounces that “it is one more sample of the intolerance climate that there is and of ChristianoFobia. Justice must give limits, because the attacks on believers are getting more and more.”
This act could be included in the first report prepared by the Office of Reception of Complaints of Crimes of Hate and offenses for religious reasons, which decided to create the Permanent Commission of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) at its last meeting.
Nicolás de Cárdenas
Born in 1980, I am a Spanish and journalist’s husband and father with more than 20 years of experience in print and digital media, specialized in socio -political and religious information. I have worked more than 10 years in defense of human rights and I have accreditations in journalism and comprehensive communication. Since July 2022, I am a correspondent for ACI Press and Ewtn News in Spain, covering international events of the Catholic Church.