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HALIFAX—For the second time this spring, vandals attacked Halifax Christian sites on the weekend.
Religious statues in the Mount Olivet Cemetery received “extensive” spray paint damage overnight Saturday, the Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth said Monday.
The cemetery’s columbarium was also spray-painted.
“Mount Olivet has been sacred ground for more than 120 years,” said Archbishop Anthony Mancini.
“It is not only the physical damage done which is upsetting, but the expression of anti-Christian feelings and hate which is most worrisome.”
St. Theresa’s Church on North Street in Halifax was also damaged, with similar symbols similar found on the doors to the church.
Photos showed the anarchy symbol, along with upside-down crosses.
Two Catholic churches were hit Easter Sunday with obscene graffiti.
Vandals spray-painted obscene words and drawings on St. Agnes Church, and also hit Saint Benedict Church in the suburb of Clayton Park.
Father James Mallon of Saint Benedict tweeted a picture of the graffiti with the caption: “Someone said to me this week that Christians were not persecuted in our country. This morning we woke up to this.”
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