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Police officers were sent to the Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion to investigate the profanation.

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“This is a profanation, an imitation of shooting, an imitation of exercises, an imitation of a formation,” Leshkov raged.

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It seems like a profanation of the word to write it in connection with such a monster, so asked him point-blank:—

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco urged Catholics after the vote to “remember the eucharistic martyrs who died to protect the Most Blessed Sacrament from profanation.”

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“The position of the Catholic Church on the right to life is unchanged; obscenities, violence and disrupting services as well as profanation are not the right method of action,” Gadecki said in a statement.

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