In February, Vandals desecrated and destroyed crosses and statues in the Saint-Alain Cathedral, a Lavour, in France. The arms of a statue of Christ on the cross have been mockingly mutilated. Furthermore, an altar cloth was burned. (Image source: Eutrope/Wikimedia Commons)
Countless churches across Western Europe have been vandalized, defecated and set on fire.
In France, two churches are desecrated, in media, everyday. Second PI-News, a German news site, In the 2018, in France, have been registered 1.063 attacks against churches or Christian symbols (crucified, icons, statue). This figure attests to an increase of 17 percent compared to the previous year (2017), when they were register 878 attacks, which means that the phenomenon is increasingly worrying.
In February and March, The following desecrations were perpetrated in France:

• Vandals ransacked the church of Notre-Dame des Enfants, Nimes, and they used some human excrement to draw a cross its a wall; some consecrated hosts were found outside the church, in a garbage can.
• In February, the church of Saint-Nicolas, in Houilles, was vandalized three times; a 19th century statue of the Virgin Mary, whose damage is considered “irreparable“, was “literally pulverized“, according to a priest; and a cross hanging on a wall was thrown to the floor.
• Vandals they desecrated and destroyed crosses and statues in the Saint-Alain Cathedral, a Lavour, and they mockingly mutilated the arms of a statue of Christ on the cross. Furthermore, an altar cloth was burned.
• Arsonists they set fire the church of Saint-Sulpice, in Paris, after midday mass, Sunday 17 March.

Similar episodes also take place in Germany. Four churches they were vandalized and/or set on fire as recently as March. “In this country”, he explained PI-News , “there is a creeping war going on against everything that Christianity symbolizes: attacks against the crosses placed at the top of the mountains, from the sacred statues on the street, of churches (…) and recently also cemeteries”.
But who should be held responsible for these continuous and increasingly numerous attacks against European churches? The same information site German provides a clue: “The crosses are broken, the altars destroyed, Bibles burned, baptismal fonts overturned and church doors daubed with Islamic expressions such as 'Allahu Akbar'”.
November 11th 2017, another news site German noted that only in the Alps and Bavaria were attacked approximately 200 churches and many crosses were broken: “The police are inundated with reports of church desecrations. The perpetrators are often young rioters with a migrant background”. They are also described as “young Islamists“.
Sometimes, Unfortunately, in the European regions with the largest presence of Muslims, There appears to be a concomitant increase in attacks against Christian churches and symbols. Before Christmas 2016, in the German region of North Rhine-Westphalia, dove More than one million Muslims reside there, a fifty Christian statues (including those of Jesus) they were beheaded and the crucifixes were shattered.
In the 2016, shortly after the arrival of one million migrants in Germany, mostly Muslims, a local newspaper he reported than in Dülmen, a city with less than 50 thousand inhabitants, “not a day goes by without religious statues being attacked in the urban center and in the immediate vicinity”.
Even in France it seems that where the number of Muslim migrants increases, attacks against churches also multiply. A study from January 2017 he revealed than in France “Islamist attacks against Christians” have increased by 38 percent, passing from 273 assaults in 2015 a 376 In the 2016; most were perpetrated during the Christmas period and “many of the attacks occurred in churches and other places of worship”.
As a typical example, In the 2014, a Muslim “vandalized” the ancient church of Saint-François de Sales and that of Saint-Hippolyte, in Thonon-les-Bains. According to a report (accompanied by photos), the man “he overturned and shattered two altars, the candlesticks and lecterns, he destroyed the statues, he demolished a tabernacle, he bent a solid bronze cross, he broke down a sacristy door and even broke some commemorative windows”. It also has “trampled” the Eucharist.
For similar examples in other European countries, you know Who, Who, Who, Who e Who.
In almost all episodes of attacks against churches, the authorities and the media hide the identity of the vandals. In those rare cases where Muslim identity (o “migrant”) of the iconoclasts was leaked, these defilers are then presented as people who suffer from mental health problems. Come he wrote recently PI-News:

“Almost no one writes and talks about the growing attacks against Christian symbols. In France and Germany there is an eloquent silence regarding the scandal of desecrations and the origins of the perpetrators. (…) Not a word, not even the slightest clue that could in any way lead to suspicion of the migrants. (…) It is not the criminals who are at risk of being banned, but those who dare to associate the desecration of Christian symbols with the importation of immigrants. They are accused of hatred, of hate speech and racism”.