Mosque helps vandalized Catholic Church clean up

Last month, a Catholic Church in Mississauga, Canada was vandalized. Video footage showed a man entering the church and ripping apart holy books. A few days later, the church was attacked again. This time it was vandalized with graffiti. Although the criminal has since be apprehended, the destructions remained.

Until the neighborhood mosque stepped in to help.

Via The Star:

After hearing of the incidents through the media, Hamid Slimi, imam of the Sayeda Khadija Centre in Mississauga, paid a visit to nearby St. Catherine of Siena Roman Catholic Church. He was shocked after Father Camillo Lando showed him some of the vandal’s behaviour caught on security video.
“It was a very bad scene,” said Slimi. “The guy who did it ripped pages out of the Bible. He broke the altar. He threw the cross,” said Slimi. “When I saw this, I thought it was pure injustice. It was just wrong.”
Moved by what he saw at the church, Slimi told his congregation about the incident at a Friday sermon and urged them to donate. They raised almost $5,000 in one day.
“I told my community, there is nothing we can do now. But the church needs funds,” said Slimi. “We believe there is no discrimination in charity. It is the act that is rewarded. It doesn’t matter who is the recipient.”

And people say religions can’t coexist.

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