Bishops criticise play in which Jesus rapes Muslim at festival

Czech bishops have distanced themselves from the performance "Our Violence and Your Violence," in which Jesus rapes a Muslim woman, in the programme of the May theatre festival in Brno, in a letter they sent to Brno Mayor Petr Vokral and released on their website on Thursday. Because of the city's support for the theatre festival, the bishops cannot agree with their auspices of another municipal project marking the 100th anniversary of Czechoslovakia's birth, they said on the www.cirkev.cz website.