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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan has withdrawn an anti-
AIDS campaign ad featuring a smiling nun holding a
condom after it sparked an outcry from Roman
Catholics, local media said on Wednesday.

The poster, which shows the nun holding the condom
with both hands and saying "Although I don't need one,
even I know," had been removed from all condom
machines in Taipei hospitals, subway stations and
elsewhere.

"As a nun, I can't agree with their way of expressing
things," a church spokeswoman said Wednesday. "This is
a serious insult."

Nuns take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and
the Vatican considers all forms of contraception a
sin.

Local media said the plan had been to use someone with
a "positive image" to promote the use of condoms to
prevent AIDS.

There are about 300,000 Catholics on the island of 23
million people.

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