HOST DESECRATION VIDEOS BACK ON YouTube – America Needs Fatima outraged

October 2, 2008

For Immediate Release

For more information, contact – Gary Isbell at 717-309-1990

Host desecration videos originally pulled from YouTube have been reposted.  The America Needs Fatima campaign is sickened by this blasphemy and has collected 18,201 signatures on a protest petition in just 7 days.

The 40 separate desecration videos -- originally posted in mid-August -- showed the Host being flushed down a toilet, stomped on and fed to ducks, among other sickening spectacles.

In response to the America Needs Fatima petition, the desecration videos were pulled from YouTube on October 1, but were reposted the same day.

Robert Ritchie, director of America Needs Fatima, explained: “As Catholics, we believe the Host is the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ. Witnessing the desecration of the Host causes anguish to Catholics all over the world.”

Ritchie added: “In the past, YouTube has removed videos offensive to Jews and members of other religions, including one showing a teenager urinating on a Holocaust memorial. Why can’t Catholics be afforded the same respect for our deeply held beliefs?”

“The desecration of the Host is not an acceptable form of free speech. The only message it conveys is one of unremitting hatred,” Ritchie said.

Click here to sign and send a petition protest to YouTube.

Or convey your own protest message to YouTube by calling (650)253-0000 or FAXing (650) 253-0001.

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America Needs Fatima aims to capture the heart and soul of America with the message of Our Lady of Fatima.

ANF is a project of The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP), which was founded in 1973 by a group of concerned Catholics to lead an intellectual resistance to liberalism, socialism and communism, as well as to affirm the positive values of tradition, family and property.

For more information on the projects and activities of America Needs Fatima, go to www.ANF.org . To schedule an interview with Robert Ritchie, call Gary Isbell at 717-309-1990.