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Michigan man charged with hate crime following vandalism, attack on priest

May 23, 2025

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CWN Editor's Note: A Michigan man has been charged with ethnic intimidation, malicious destruction of a building, and institutional desecration after he allegedly threw a rock through the window of a parish in Marysville, Michigan, and attacked a priest during a baptism.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has documented over 380 acts of vandalism, arson, and other destruction at parishes and other Catholic sites in the United States since 2020. A tracker from CatholicVote.org lists additional attacks.

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