The ceremony was organized with great care by the Élysée.
On the evening of February 1, Mgr Pascal Gollnisch, 69, director of the Œuvre d'Orient since 2010, received from the hands of the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, the insignia of Knight of the Legion of Honor.
The French State thus rewards the action of a prelate who expends fierce energy for the cause of the Christians of the East.
It finances it each year to the tune of 20 million euros, from donations received by this work of the Church founded in 1856.
It wouldn't occur to anyone to discuss the quality of the work accomplished by this very reactive work and by the bubbling Bishop Gollnisch, whistleblower, always at the forefront of the crisis situations of recent years in Iraq, in Syria, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Nagorno-Karabakh.
Without forgetting the constancy of the Work of the East to help these Christians for 160 years to build churches, schools, hospitals, housing...
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