What happened?
A catholic has thrown three controversial statues into Rome’s River Tiber, before posting a video of the incident online. The video shows an unidentified figure removing the statues from the church of Santa Maria in Transpontina before knocking them off the edge of the Ponte Sant’Angelo. The video says it was done to emphasise that salvation comes only through Christ.
The statues have generated great controversy since one appeared at a ceremony at the start of the Amazon synod. A woman presented it to the Pope as “Our Lady of the Amazon”, but the photo agency Getty described it as a statue of “Pachamama”, an Andean goddess.
