Sylvia runs the website
Passion of Christ. She posts content from it on her Facebook page
A Spiritual Journey with Jesus The Divine Mercy. She is promoting a global peace movement on Facebook called
A Peaceful Revolution in the Name of Jesus Christ." It unites Christians all over the world in prayer and remembrance of the Passion of Christ daily at the time Jesus died for us 3 p.m. (Each of us in our local time zones.) She buys ads from Facebook to promote her posts. They contain spiritual reflections on the Word of God with related images.
But Facebook recently started rejecting some of her ads. Facebook accompanied some of the rejections with Your ad wasnt approved because it doesnt follow our
Advertising Policies. We dont allow ads that contain shocking or sensational content including ads that depict violence or threats of violence." Facebook rejected some of them because the posts included images of the Passion of Christ. Christ is portrayed in the crucifixion process wearing the Crown of Thorns or on the Cross. When Sylvia inquired about the rejections all she got was a computer generated email. Many of her ad posts were approved in the past by Facebook and got millions of likes."
Deeply Troubling"
Sylvia lamented"Facebook is calling photos of the Passion of Christ violent and indeed the crucifixion of Our Lord Jesus was violent. But it is deeply troubling to me that as a Christian advertiser I am being limited in what images I can share." Pictures of Jesus being crucified have been a fixture in society for two thousand years. They are not glorifying violence. They show reverence for what Christ underwent. There are over two billion Christians in the world one-third of the population. Christians find these images fundamental to their faith.
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