Connecticut Church Defaced With Satanic Symbols & Statue of Jesus Beheaded In Florida Church

Churches throughout the U.S. continue to be targeted by vandals. A Catholic church in Connecticut has reported being vandalized with satanic symbols sometime late on Wednesday night hours after a Jesus statue was found decapitated inside a Florida church. https://twitter.com/delarosaWPLG/status/1283587607188955136 Both churches appear to the latest casualties in a US culture war that has Add New Post. Preview(opens in a new tab)(opens in a new tab)Add titleConnecticut Church Defaced With Satanic Symbols & Statue of Jesus Beheaded In Florida Church Churches throughout the U.S. continue to be targeted by vandals. A Catholic church in Connecticut has reported being vandalized with satanic symbols sometime late on Wednesday night hours after a Jesus statue was found decapitated inside a Florida church. increasingly targeted Christian figures in recent days. Masses and other services were canceled at St. Joseph’s Church in New Haven as parish leaders assessed the damage. In a Facebook post the Rev. John Paul Walker said there appeared to be satanic and anarchist symbols painted on the building’s doors. The New Haven incident is the latest in a series of attacks on Catholic churches across the US, including the decapitation of a Jesus statue on Wednesday in a Miami suburb. The statue was found headless in the courtyard of a Catholic church in Kendale Lakes, Florida, after allegedly being vandalized. The Miami Archdiocese says it expects police to pursue the incident as a hate crime. RT reports: Church leaders see the attacks as part of a campaign of terror that has come amid anti-racism protests across the nation. Vandals previously targeted statues of historic figures ranging from Confederate General Robert E. Lee to abolitionist Frederick Douglass. “The underlying motive of these sacrilegious attacks is clear: to intimidate and instill fear in the hearts of those who worship Christ,” the Archdiocese of Hartford said Thursday. “However, our cherished Catholic faith has survived for 2,000 years in the faces of many different oppressors, and it is not about to yield now.” Some of the church figures targeted for destruction or removal had plausible points of criticism for the anti-racism protesters, such as St. Junipero Serra, a Franciscan priest who was accused of enslaving Native Americans as he spread the Catholic faith in California. His statue on the grounds of the California Capitol in San Francisco was toppled by a group of activists on July 4. But some in the Black Lives Matter movement have come against Christian symbols more broadly. Racial activist Shaun King said on June 22 that all murals, statues and other depictions of Jesus as a white European should “come down.” “They are a form of white supremacy,” King said. “Always have been. In the Bible, when the family of Jesus wanted to hide and blend in, guess where they went – Egypt, not Denmark. Tear them down.”