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Police in Paris are searching for an “African type” man accused of vandalising and desecrating a Roman Catholic church in central Paris, who they say has a prior history of church attacks.

A man was arrested after allegedly using a sledgehammer to desecrate the altar at the Subiaco Abbey church in Arkansas on Thursday.

The main war memorial in Edinburgh, Scotland, was set on fire within 24 hours of its having been the centrepiece of the nation’s Remembrance Sunday commemorations for the fallen.

The grave of 11-year-old Ebba, who was murdered in the 2017 Stockholm attack, has been desecrated at least a hundred times, her father said.

More than 25 Catholic parishes and ministry centers in and around Denver have been vandalized, looted, targeted by arson or desecrated in the past 21 months, Denver Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila reported Thursday.

The U.S. Catholic bishops expressed their dismay over the 100th act of anti-Catholic vandalism since they began tracking the phenomenon last May.

Unidentified vandals desecrated a Catholic church in the northern Italian town of Scandiano, smashing the tabernacle and decapitating the statue of the Virgin Mary, Italian media reported Monday.

The father of Swedish terror attack victim Ebba Akrlund has alleged that police questioned him after defending her gravesite from a woman he claimed was stealing objects from the cemetery.

Police have arrested a man who allegedly smashed windows of a historic Catholic church in Leicester, England, while denouncing “parasitic Christians.”

A masked man broke into the Incarnation Catholic Church northwest of Tampa, Florida, last weekend and set fire to the interior before fleeing, the Tampa Bay Times reported Tuesday.

Unidentified vandals decapitated a statue of the Virgin Mary this weekend at Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite church in Toronto.

Presumed Satanists disfigured and toppled a wooden statue of Jesus Christ in Cremona, Italy, leaving a piece of cardboard with the inscription “Satan,” La Repubblica newspaper revealed.

Unidentified vandals desecrated a Christian church in Goleszów, southern Poland, last weekend, painting Satanic symbols on the main doors of the building.

Leaders from the U.S. Bishops’ conference (USCCB) have denounced the recent string of vandalism, arson, and desecration of Catholic sites in the country.

Catholic churches across North America suffered a devastating week of vandalism and arson from July 10-16, according to a report from the Aleteia news agency.

Italian cemetery workers were caught on CCTV dismembering bodies of the recently deceased as part of a scam that offered a supposed cheap alternative to cremation.

Police have confirmed that a fire in the French church of Notre-Dame de Grâce on Easter Sunday appears to have been intentionally set, making it the latest in a string of desecrations of Christian churches in the country.

A pair of Romanian migrants were arrested in Paris after being suspected of a series of robberies of churches in both the city and the surrounding suburbs stealing at least 70,000 euros’ worth of property.

St Mary’s Catholic Church in Great Yarmouth was “desecrated” in a satanist attack for the second time in four months.