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Anti-Semitic Graffiti Painted on Brazilian Cathedral by Vandals

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From Associated Press

Vandals spray-painted anti-Semitic slogans Wednesday on the Metropolitan Cathedral, a landmark in this inland capital.

Graffiti reading “The CNBB is Jewish” and “The Amazon is ours, Jewish ecologists get out” were painted on a wall outside the cathedral, designed by the prominent Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and opened in 1967.

A spokesman for the CNBB, the Portuguese acronym for the Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishops’ Conference, called the graffiti “absurd and ridiculous.”

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The bishops’ conference often has spoken out against destruction of the Amazon rain forest and the invasion of Indian lands by miners and wood cutters.

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