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‘Monsignor Satan’: Venezuelan Socialist Graffiti Threatens Priests Who Criticized Maduro
Breitbart ^ | 1/25/18 | Francis Martel

Posted on 01/29/2018 5:56:53 PM PST by marshmallow

Pro-socialist vandals targeted the walls of Venezuela’s Cumaná Cathedral and its surroundings with threatening anti-Catholic messages Tuesday night, referring to Cumaná’s archbishop as “Monsignor Satan” after dictator Nicolás Maduro targeted clergymen in a television broadcast this week.

Monsignor Diego Padrón, Archbishop of Cumaná, had signed a letter of support for priests the government targeted after delivering homilies lamenting the tragic state of the nation. Maduro had referred to Padrón and other anti-socialist priests as “devils in cassocks” and threatened to prosecute them with a “law against hate” his supporters passed that grants the Venezuelan government extended powers to silence critics.

The graffiti outside the cathedral on Wednesday included slogans like “Monsignor Satan,” “Monsignor Pimp,” “Monsignor Padrón Out,” and “Sadist, Get Out” according to photos published by the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) on Twitter.

“What happened yesterday was graffitied overnight,” Padrón explained in an interview Wednesday on the program En la Unión está la Fuerza, according to Colombia’s NTN24 News. “It is a reaction—by the government, we assume—against a communique from the eastern bishops in solidarity with bishops in Barquisimeto … who expressed their discontent with the situation in the country.”

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: venezuela

1 posted on 01/29/2018 5:56:53 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

What a country ... ish.


2 posted on 01/29/2018 6:02:21 PM PST by johniegrad
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To: marshmallow

Maduro is nasty and stupid. Pineapple Head was just nasty.


3 posted on 01/29/2018 6:25:19 PM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: johniegrad

Its more like a concentration camp nowadays......


4 posted on 01/29/2018 7:17:28 PM PST by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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