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Pipe bomb found behind Catholic church in Philadelphia
By Tyler Arnold Washington D.C., Feb 20, 2023 / 16:20 pm An 18-inch pipe bomb was found behind a Catholic church in Philadelphia and removed by the police department’s bomb squad. According to a police report, a passerby found the pipe bomb behind St. Dominic Catholic Church in the Holmesburg neighborhood …
Police say church vandal was about to break into tabernacle — until he saw the statue of Mary
By Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Feb 6, 2023 / 13:55 pm In early January, a man entered a Benedictine monastery in Arkansas and began smashing the altar with a sledgehammer. He was about to begin breaking open the tabernacle where the consecrated bread is kept, but something stopped him in his …
American tourist desecrates statue of Christ in Catholic church in Jerusalem
by CNA Staff CNA Newsroom, Feb 2, 2023 / 13:45 pm On Feb. 2, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple and the Virgin of Candlemas, a vandal desecrated an image of Jesus in a Catholic church in Jerusalem. The Associated Press reported that the attack …
Woman arrested at Fargo cathedral for smashing ‘Christ in Death’ statue
by Kevin J. Jones Denver, Colo., Jan 27, 2023 / 08:08 am A woman was arrested after allegedly causing serious damage to a statue of Jesus at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Fargo, North Dakota, on Monday evening, possibly while she was under the influence of drugs. “We were saddened to …
Divine Mercy shrine at Catholic parish in Wisconsin defaced with graffiti
by Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Nov 22, 2022 / 06:00 am A Catholic parish in southern Wisconsin suffered a graffiti attack overnight on Sunday that saw a large tiled display of the Divine Mercy image defaced with green spray-painted letters. Run by the Stockbridge, Massachusetts-based Marian Fathers, St. Peter …
Arrest made in vandalism of Cardinal Dolan’s residence at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC
by Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Nov 10, 2022 / 17:00 pm An arrest has been made in a two-day-long vandalism spree in October that included an attack on Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s residence at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. Juan Velez was arrested by the New York Police Department’s …
Bishop Barron, expressing ‘outrage,’ vows to reconsecrate vandalized cemetery
by Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Nov 3, 2022 / 13:03 pm Bishop Robert Barron has pledged to reconsecrate a Catholic Minnesota cemetery vandalized on Halloween night with satanic and vulgar graffiti. “On this feast of All Souls, when the Church honors our beloved dead, I would like to express my …
VIDEO: Pro-abortion vandals caught in the act of spray-painting Michigan church
ny Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Oct 12, 2022 / 16:38 pm A Catholic church in Lansing, Michigan, has released a security video that captured three hooded individuals vandalizing the church Oct. 8 with pro-abortion and anti-Catholic graffiti. The three individuals can be seen approaching the Church of the Resurrection on …
Reports of at least 40 people killed in church fire in Egypt
by AC Wimmer CNA Newsroom, Aug 14, 2022 / 05:50 am At least 40 people — most of them children — have died in a fire in a Coptic Orthodox church in Giza Governorate, Egypt, on Sunday, according to government and church officials. Thirty-five children between two and six years of …
Kansas archbishop: Catholic church attacks are ‘un-American’
by Katie Yoder Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 12, 2022 / 13:25 pm The archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas condemned the recent attack on a local Catholic church ahead of the state’s vote on a pro-life amendment. “This attack and others targeting Catholic churches in Kansas and across the country …