{"id":282869,"date":"2020-06-18T17:05:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T14:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=282869"},"modified":"2020-06-18T17:05:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T14:05:31","slug":"google-bucharest-fined-for-renaming-of-romanias-national-cathedral-on-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/google-bucharest-fined-for-renaming-of-romanias-national-cathedral-on-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Bucharest fined for renaming of Romania’s National Cathedral on Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Bucharest was sanctioned on Wednesday by the National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD) for not taking any action concerning the blasphemous renaming of the Romanian People’s Salvation Cathedral on Google Maps.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The name of the new church was left as \u201cCathedral of the Stupidity of the Nation\u201d in the app for several days.<\/p>\n

The name change was first noticed by Android users on Saturday, May 2. The Orthodox faithful quickly took to social media, demanding that the issue be remedied as quickly as possible. Patriarchate spokesman Vasile B\u0103nescu noted that the cathedral was built \u201cin memory of the best of the people of this country\u2014its heroes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Christophobia of some people \u2026 indicates a dangerous moral pathology that is already causing much harm in Europe and the world that Christianity has civilized over two millennia,\u201d\u00a0he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the CNCD communiqu\u00e9, Google Bucharest, the Romanian subsidiary of the American company, received a misdemeanour fine of $2,325 (10,000 lei) by unanimous vote. The CNCD believes that the situation constitutes an act of discrimination and violates the right to dignity.<\/p>\n

Google Bucharest is also obliged to publish a summary of the decision on the front page of the Romanian version of Google.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank all those who took a stance against this intolerable abuse and offence against the Church and, specifically, against the National Cathedral,\u201d B\u0103nescu said<\/a>\u00a0in response to the CNCD\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

The idea to build the Romanian People\u2019s Salvation Cathedral was launched right after Romania gained its state independence in 1877 but became a reality only 130 years later under His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel.<\/p>\n

The cathedral was\u00a0consecrated in November 2018 by Patriarch Daniel and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople.<\/p>\n

Photography courtesy of<\/em><\/strong><\/em> Basilica.ro<\/strong><\/em><\/span> \/ Iulian Dumitra\u015fcu<\/p>\n

English article by OrthoChristian<\/p>\n

Follow us on Twitter: @BasilicaNews<\/p>\n

Thank you for reading Basilica.ro!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google Bucharest was sanctioned on Wednesday by the National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD) for not taking any action concerning the blasphemous renaming of the Romanian People’s Salvation Cathedral on Google Maps. The name of the new church was left as \u201cCathedral of the Stupidity of the Nation\u201d in the app for several days. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":282829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22922],"tags":[23256,886,10386,53,4463],"class_list":["post-282869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-google-maps","tag-national-cathedral","tag-orthodox-news","tag-romanian-orthodox-church","tag-romanian-peoples-salvation-cathedral"],"better_featured_image":{"id":282829,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1920,"height":1280,"file":"2020\/06\/Catedrala-Mantuirii-Neamului.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"Catedrala-Mantuirii-Neamului-890x593.jpg","width":890,"height":593,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Catedrala-Mantuirii-Neamului-890x593.jpg"},"large":{"file":"Catedrala-Mantuirii-Neamului-1024x683.jpg","width":1024,"height":683,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Catedrala-Mantuirii-Neamului-1024x683.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"Catedrala-Mantuirii-Neamului-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Catedrala-Mantuirii-Neamului-360x360.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"Catedrala-Mantuirii-Neamului-1536x1024.jpg","width":1536,"height":1024,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Catedrala-Mantuirii-Neamului-1536x1024.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"","camera":"ILCE-7M3","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1583502217","copyright":"","focal_length":"16","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.003125","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":282869,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Catedrala-Mantuirii-Neamului.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282869\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=282869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282869\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282829\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=282869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=282869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=282869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}