Europe: assaults on Catholic churches and church sites have frequented

There have been frequented assaults on Catholic churches of France and Belgium lately. The Church Internet sites have also become a target object. This is reported by Catholic News Agency.

In French Romanesque city Martigues evil-doers burnt an altar of Saint Mary Magdalene church. “The altar is made of marble so the fire did not spread onto the whole church, the local priest told. – If it were wooden, the implications would be disastrous.” The priest also reported, on May 15 the unknown persons desecrated a repository of the holy gifts in the church in Provence. Father Delabre was attacked right in the church door: an unknown intruder, according to the priest, “was trying to steal something” in the church.  

Martigues’s mayor Gaby Charroux said bitterly that “sacrilege acts in France are getting even more frequented”, and promised that the police would do to the best of their abilities to curb the looters. During April over one hundred church sites in France were attacked by allegedly Tunisian cyber jihadists who call themselves “Falaga Team”.    

On May 24 in one of the Belgian cities the fire seriously damaged a church of XVI century. The fire burst into a blaze in a sacristy. Hardly had the firemen handled that fire area as the church roof got on fire, too. According to the police, the fire was caused by the act of arson. The guilty are wanted by the law enforcement.

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