Taipei, Taiwan - Posters showing a Catholic nun holding a condom as part of an anti-AIDS campaign in Taiwan have been recalled and destroyed after protests from angry church members.
The posters, put up recently at several Taipei mass transit stations, feature a woman dressed as a nun saying "Although I don't use it, I know (what a condom is)."
The aim was to promote the use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS.
However Taipei City's Sexually-Transmitted Disease Control Center, which commissioned the poster, was forced to apologize and remove the advertisements earlier this month after protests from Catholic groups.
All posters and digital files were destroyed, an official at the center said.
"We think it's inappropriate to use religious figures in the advertisement. It is bad for the image of the Catholic church," said a spokeswoman for an association representing nuns.
Taiwan, a mainly Buddhist and Taoist country, also has nearly 300,000 Catholics.