Operation Christmas Child Rejects 'Christmas' Gifts
A Christian charity has banned its donors from offering religious items to children.
Operation Christmas Child, which is run by Samaritan's Purse, is requesting donors to pack shoeboxes with toys, notepads, and basic necessities such as soap- but not with items related to the Christian Christmas.
Stories from the Bible, images of Jesus and any other Christian literature are expressely forbidden in case Muslims are offended.
Last Christmas, Britons filled 1.13 million shoeboxes for Samaritan's Purse to send to children abroad.
But Barbara Hill, who works at the worldwide charity's UK headquarters in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, said: "Anything we find in the boxes which has a religious nature will be removed.
"If a box was opened by a Muslim child in a Muslim country they may be offended so we try to avoid religious images."
