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  • ITALY: Young Muslims, steal from rectory, break into church, defecate and urinate by altar

    07/30/2013 12:32:42 PM PDT · by NYer · 42 replies
    WDTPRS ^ | July 30, 2013 | Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
    In Mantua, Italy, there was another event to inspire more dialogue.From the Gazzetta di Mantova: SERRAVALLE: First the broke in to the rectory at Libiola and stole money of the fund for the children of Grest; then, not satisfied, they went to the nearby church which, after last year’s earthquake, is a simple temporary structure of plastic and, next to the altar defecated and urinated. It was a contemptuous, vandalic, and sacrilegious act. Those responsible would also be identified, because a woman saw them leaving the tent. Those concerned are four young men of Moroccan origin, one a resident of...