Thursday, December 27, 2012
Brooklyn Religious Institutions Under Attack: A Recent History
Posted
by Henry Stewart
on Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:00 PM
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In March, vandals tipped over statues worshiping at the base of a statue of the Virgin Mary in front of the Visitation Academy in Bay Ridge, a Catholic school. They also decapitated a stone lamb. A local paper,
The Home Reporter,
questioned parents about whether they were afraid or if the attack might have been a hate crime, but they largely dismissed such concerns. [
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