Jugend Gegen Aids made this amazing online project with Crying Mary. She shed a tear every time someone like the facebook Page of of the German NGO.
It is a message for the Catholic Church who refuses to give up it’s opposition to condom use.
Check the Facebook Page with a live stream showing Virgin Mary.
See how it works in the video below.
Every year about 2 million human lives are lost to the effects of AIDS, and the number of newly infected people is even higher. The simplest way to protect yourself from infection is to use condoms.
“It’s real. Christmas is real. It’s about a real pregnancy, a real mother and a real child. It’s about real anxiety, courage and hope. This billboard portrays Mary, Jesus’ mother, looking at a home pregnancy test kit revealing that she is pregnant. Regardless of any premonition, that discovery would have been shocking. Mary was unmarried, young, and poor. This pregnancy would shape her future. She was certainly not the first woman in this situation or the last.”
When talking about Hate or Unhate I prefer relations between real people. Those on the front line.
Unhate isn’t about stunning Photoshop work or a green logo from Italy.
These pro-atheism billboards are appearing around Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, to “educate the public on matters relating to nontheism, and to promote the constitutional principle of separation between church and state”. Clearly a response to the Tea Party‘s rise among the religious right in that state.
I’m not sure that the hipster atheist couple, above, are the best spokepeople to break through to the salt of the earth. But you can see several examples of the movement’s diversity after the break.
I just want to say this: Just because you don’t believe in god doesn’t mean that you have to lose faith in the principles of good art direction.
With the advent of new technology our lives should have become progressively simpler, happier and more connected. But is that what is really happening? Seems that with the myriad gadgets we invent to enable us to stay connected, the more disconnected we become.
We might be attending a stimulating lecture, enjoying a night out with friends, yet our hands are tapping in text.
We might be spending time at the park, watching our toddlers in the playground, but our fingers and our mind are distracted with ‘important’ matters.
We could be sitting in a restaurant, soft music in the background, enjoying dinner with our spouse, yet each of us is glued to our respective phones.
I’m not sure about this. I’m online 12 hours a day mostly and I know it is not always a pleasure for those I live and work with.
Ohr Naava, Women’s Torah Center in New York, ask the world to disconnect your smartphone on October 2 even if only for one hour.
We had the successful example of Earth Day, the day many people in the world turned the lights off for one hour.
In most cases I like to decide what to do myself. And I tried to disconnect one day a week. That didn’t work.
Maybe the day to disconnect isn’t a bad idea at all.
This “Condoms4Life” campaign by Catholics for Choice has been refused placement on Madrid buses during World Youth Day, the church’s annual international rally for young believers.
(Spanish version after the break)
C4C complain that, at the last minute, “the municipal authorities and Publimedia (a local media company) withdrew permission for the campaign messages to appear on billboards, buses and bus shelters in downtown Madrid, claiming that the ads could be ‘offensive.’” They insist that they will instead do face-to-face marketing at World Youth Day with their message of “Good Catholics Use Condoms”. They say they are emboldened by Pope Benedict’s remarkable comments about condoms being a “lesser evil” when used strictly for harm reduction in preventing the spread of AIDS.
“The young people in our coalition came from all over the world to proclaim at Catholic World Youth Day that good Catholics use condoms. HIV and AIDS are realities in the lives of young people and we know that in good conscience Catholics can use condoms to protect those we care about,” said Marissa Valeri, a lead organizer of the coalition. “We welcome that the pope has come out to say that condoms can prevent HIV transmission. We now want him to go further in publicly backing condom use and facing down Vatican conservatives because lives can be saved with a more realistic and compassionate view of condoms and sexuality in our church.”
Founded in 1973, Catholics for Choice claim to be “part of the great majority who believes that Catholic teachings on conscience mean that every individual must follow his or her own conscience—and respect others’ right to do the same. “ They support free individual reproductive choice, including contraception, access to abortion, and new reproductive technologies, which are controversial issues even outside the Vatican.
It was placed this week by an American group calling themselves The Christian Left, who tell the world:
“We are The Christian Left. We’re all around you. We’re among the people. Take a look. We’re part of the Body of Christ. We’re Christians. We’re Liberal. We make no apologies. In fact Jesus’ ways are “Liberal.” That’s why He was killed. The Pharisees and the Sadducees were the conservatives of their time.”
Well, their ad got banned from Facebook because, as the automatic notification e-mail said, “This ad has been disapproved due to negative user feedback concerning the ad’s content.”
Posted by Marc | 7-06-2011 23:12 | Category:
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God: I Love You. That isn’t a surprising tagline. It is the most used tagline ever. What really surprising is, is the fact that this campaign film was shown in 800 German cinemas for four weeks.
It is from Godnews. That is, how they describe it, “a melting pot of ideas with depth and new spiritual impulses about God, Bible, design, art and media. Fresh inspiration”.
More than 2.000.000 people have seen the film.
The film was first made for movie theaters and after that for online use. It was all funded by friends from the Godnews network.
Eva Jung, founder of Godnews: “Because I wanted that this little film has to be first in cinema (because the surprise is much larger if you see this commercial in cinema), I didn’t spread it through the web to get donations for to show it in cinemas. The idea was to collect some money from our friends in Hamburg, to show the film in some movie theaters in Hamburg. But some friends of my network asked what the costs are for their hometowns - because they wanted to show the film also in their movie theaters. I gave them a little guideline including the script and sent it to friends in different german towns. And after 6 weeks we got all the money.”
The target audience are possible believers and non-believers. Eva: “And last but not least ... also believers - to get something like a whack on the side of their head like “Oh my God, this is my God!”
X3 is a faith-based crusade to help men (and women) get over addiction to pornography, which is a personal mission for Gross. He calls it “The #1 most destructive force in our culture”, and following Christian tradition he ministers to the fallen. He is known for attending adult industry conventions and distributing Bibles to the performers with his message that ”Jesus Loves Porn Stars”. CNN reports that he also ministers to convicted child pornographers in prison.
The purpose of National Porn Sunday, according to X3, is to raise awareness about the issue and challenge men to quit consuming pornography on game day. Gross recruited some NFL players to produce an infomercial-length PSA:
Yes, it’s weird. And perhaps uniquely American in its love-hate relationship with sexuality, and the the commercial style of its religion. But the man has a genuine fire in his belly:
“Any Christian man or woman who is engaging in sexual immorality of any kind is a person in conflict. Often it starts by viewing pseudo-pornography-things like modeling sites, chat sites, personal homepages, and other sites that often contain seductive images, but may not be classified as pornography.
Very quickly this kind of online behavior can spiral down to a place where these images don’t cut it anymore. At this point the viewer begins to “need” more intense images to be stimulated. Often you will hear someone who has gotten addicted say, ‘I have no idea how I got here; it started so innocently.’ Pornography is both very alluring and very addictive. Sexual addiction along with pornography addiction are issues that face many people these days. The websites that are distributing the material are designed to draw in the viewer, dangle free content and easy sign-ups-in an attempt to capture a new user.
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If your life is being controlled by your sexual desires and activities, instead of YOU being in control of them, then you have a sexual addiction. Studies have shown that ninety-nine percent of all masturbation involves lust and mental fantasy, which disconnects you from real relationships with real people.
If you sent a bottle of vodka to every home in America every week for a year, you would no doubt have a whole wave of alcoholics. The Internet has created a wave of pornography addicts with its pervasive porn delivery mechanism.”
Religion lessons in schools: This spot has been running for two years on the Macedonian Television.
The speaker speaks German. I guess this linguistic distance increases the effect and has more influence: German as a “European” language, Europe as a destination.
This spot is also running on MTV2 with Macedonian and Albanian subtitles because Macedonia is a multicultural country.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo or DRC, sexual violence is a community-wide problem. Rape, in the DRC has been used as a weapon of war and sadly continues to increase even after. According to the peacebuilding NGO Search for Common Ground or SFCG, it is estimated that there…
In the movie Hot Tub Time Machine, John Cusack goes “back to the future” and discovers that his friend Lou has become incredibly wealthy due to a little search-engine-that-could that he aptly named “Lougle.” It’s a fun example of how an individual’s name can become a familiar household term…
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