MUMBAI, India – Vandals on March 21 robbed and desecrated a Catholic Church in Odisha’s Balangir district in the Diocese of Sambalpur in India.
The next day, Bishop Niranjan Sualsingh of Sambalpur said some people broke open the Holy Family Church at Titilagarh and took away the tabernacle and the donation box, also destroying a statue.
“The thieves have desecrated the species,” he added.
The bishop has urged his faithful to do penance and prayers as reparation after some miscreants desecrated the sacred species during a robbery.
