SAINT-BERNARD-LA-CHAPELLE IS ONE OF TWO CHURCHES IN FRANCE THAT ACTIVLY AIDS MIGRANTS.
The Islam one sees on the street is as generous.
Square Saint-Bernard, at the end of the street with the bookstore (rue Saint-Bruno)
- A 19th-century painting stresses charity, and a recent work shows a multi-ethnic crowd surrounding a Black Jesus:
- The church became world-known in 1996, when 300 African migrants seeking legalization took refuge there. When the priest refused to cede the key, the police broke down the door with axes and dragged the migrants into the street, pregnant women included.
- In 2016, an exhibit commemorated the drama: "Some are without papers, others without humanity" says the panel below
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- An installation honored those migrants :
Zsaza Mercury
By Ange et Dam, neighborhood sculptresses
Behind each figure, a memory: a piece of cloth, a spoon, a plastic sandal. In front of it an ex-voto, witness to its courage.
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Street Islam
- Friday street prayer shown impressive discipline until 2012, when the City finally granted it an interior space:
Seen from a restaurant on rue Myrha
- Messages on the walls stress generosity, welcome to immigrants and the demand for dignity and justice.
During Ramadan
Free daily distribution of meals to take away
(don't forget your recipient),
from June 6 at 18:30 to July 30 2016
"Hate engenders hate."
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- As well, the restaurant of the Institute for Islamic Cultures follows the Muslim command of charity...
A few steps from Barbès
"The Open Table.
Distribution of meals,
7/7 to noon and at 5 pm."
...and a painting in a café associated with it shows the ethic of the paintings in the church.
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