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CV NEWS FEED // A Catholic church in New York City’s Chinatown was vandalized last month when an unidentified man threw a large rock through a stained glass window during Mass.
Security footage from September 30 shows a man walking up to the Church of the Transfiguration from across the street, throwing a rock roughly the size of a brick through a stained glass window of St. Patrick, and quickly leaving. No one was injured during the incident.
The Good Newsroom reported that Fr. Roger Kwan, the church’s pastor, said the window was damaged last year as well, but likely by accident. The repairs cost $12,000, but he estimated that the cost of repairing the damage caused by the rock would be more.
Fr. Kwan urged parishioners and locals to “be vigilant” and keep their eyes open, according to The Good Newsroom. The church also posted the security footage to its Instagram account, asking for help in identifying the suspect.
The Church of the Transfiguration serves the Chinese-American community surrounding it, offering Masses in Cantonese and Mandarin as well as English. According to CatholicVote’s tracker of attacks on Catholic churches, the vandalism was one of at least six separate attacks recorded across the country in September.
