Feminist protesters assault Catholic cathedral in Argentina

Women with naked torsos demanding legal and free abortion and the legal recognition of prostitution as a legitimate trade assaulted a Catholic cathedral in Argentina on Sunday, hurling stones and bottles and prompting police to fire rubber bullets into the crowd.



Participants of Argentina's National Women's Congress, held in Rosario Oct. 7-10 rallied against the local cathedral church, where they clashed with the police. (Credit: Rosario3.com.)

Inés San MartínOctober 10, 2016
VATICAN CORRESPONDENT

A feminist rally demanding an end to gender violence in Argentina ended with some violence of its own, as demonstrators hurled stones and bottles at a 19th century Catholic cathedral, prompting police to fire rubber bullets into the crowd. Several marchers were arrested, while both police and journalists covering the event were injured.

The demonstration featured women with naked torsos demanding legal and free abortion, and the recognition of prostitution as a legitimate trade.

Protesters stormed the cathedral chanting, “Take your rosaries out of your ovaries,” “O let’s swear to burn down the Church” (paraphrasing Argentina’s national anthem), and “Church, trash, you’re the dictatorship.”

Thousands of women on Sunday closed an itinerant three-day workshop known as “National Women’s Congress,” this year held in Rosario, Argentina’s second largest city. Many of the participants marched topless, with anarchist symbols drawn over their bodies.



Participants in Argentina’s 31st National Women’s Congress gather in front of Rosario’s cathedral church to ask for the legalization of abortion on Oct. 9, 2016. (Credit: Facebook Argentinos Alerta.)

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