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Police have arrested a 17-year-old youth after a church in Great Yarmouth was attacked and desecrated.

CCTV footage showed a man setting small fires in St Mary’s Catholic Church in Regent Road, Great Yarmouth, then attempting to burn an icon he took from the altar, replacing it with a picture of Satan. The incident happened on March 29.

The attack has been condemned by Parish Priest Fr Anthony Nwankwo and Bishop Alan Hopes of East Anglia, who pledged that the incident would not stop the diocese leaving its churches across the region open as places of prayer and sanctuary.

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