
Man Attacks High Altar of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican
The subject was then quickly detained by security agents.
The subject was then quickly detained by security agents.
The grenade attack happened on Pentecost Sunday at Santo Niño Chapel in Cotabato City.
The minister also identified the victim of the attack as 52-year-old Turkish national Tuncer Cihan.
‘We don’t know the reason … we have to wait to understand why this tragedy happened, happened in the church during the Mass,’ Bishop Palinuro said.
“There’s no doubt about giving them forgiveness. I was often thinking that the police statues are going to be justice. But if we get ahold of you, it’s going to be mercy,” he said.
The man allegedly set a fire and assaulted two men at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Calgary, located in the western province of Alberta.
The 60-acre shrine, which receives hundreds of thousands of pilgrims each year, operates under the auspices of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
An elderly man wielding a knife tried to kill Archbishop Faustino Armendáriz of Durango, Mexico, on May 21. The attack took place in the cathedral sacristy after the Sunday noon Mass.
Investigations into the desecrations are underway.
A coalition of conservative organizations is taking legal action to obtain documents from the Department of Justice related to the surge in pro-abortion attacks on churches and pro-life pregnancy centers and a lack of prosecution from the agency.
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