Red Bull drops nativity advert

SOFT drinks giant Red Bull has dropped an Italian Christmas advert featuring an extra wise man giving a can of its product to the baby Jesus.

Red Bull drops nativity advert

Father Marco Damanti, from Sicily, wrote to the makers of the energy drink denouncing their commercial as “a blasphemous act” and said yesterday he had received a reply promising to remove it from television.

The advert depicted four wise men, instead of three, visiting Mary and the Baby Jesus in Bethlehem. The fourth wise man bore a can of the soft drink.

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