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#NYC vandals desecrate Queens church Christmas nativity scene

“NYC vandals desecrate Queens church Christmas nativity scene”

Gutless vandals desecrated a nativity scene outside a Queens church, pulling down lights, ornaments and damaging figures of the Baby Jesus and Virgin Mary.

The ugly attack outside St. Nicholas of Tolentine R.C. Church on Goethals Avenue in Jamaica Thursday night left the nativity in shambles, according to a church official and stunned parishioner Walter Ferrer, 55, who has helped set up the holy display for the last three Christmas seasons.

“I’m so sad. This is unthinkable. Especially right after the holiday season,” Ferrer said, choking back tears.

Ferrer had no clue who would decimate the creche and wreak havoc on the five-foot-high figures.

“I drove by Thursday night and it was raining and it was fine,” he recalled.

However, Father Thomas Joseph, one of the parish priests, said the rowdies returned to the church twice that night to deface the solemn scene, according to a higher authority — surveillance video.

One parishioner called the vandalism "unthinkable."
One parishioner called the vandalism “unthinkable.”
Matthew McDermott for NY Post

“We have a camera in front of the church. It looks like two young guys,” Father Thomas said.

The clergyman said the demonic duo first pulled up in front of the church at 7:53 p.m. Thursday on an electric scooter and then stood in front of the nativity. “One of the guys pulled down the decorations and one hit the plexiglass, Father Thomas said. “Then they left” before returning at 9:45 p.m., this time on separate scooters.

“When they came back, one of the guys left the scooter on the street and went inside the nativity,” the priest said. Church officials discovered the damage — including broken figures of the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus — on Friday morning.

The Baby Jesus was stolen but later returned.
The Baby Jesus was stolen but later returned.
Matthew McDermott for NY Post
Father Thomas Joseph said the vandals returned to the church twice.
Father Thomas Joseph said the vandals returned to the church twice.
Matthew McDermott for NY Post

Ferrer, a native of Peru who came to the US in 1991 and has been a member of the Catholic parish for more than two decades, said helping to set up the nativity each year right after Thanksgiving has been a labor of love.

The parishioner, who lives 10 blocks from the church, said he holds no ill will towards the sinners.

“I’ll pray for them that it doesn’t happen again,” he said.

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