St. Rita Church in Long Island City, New York, suffered its fourth act of vandalism since 2024 when a vandal smashed a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary with a hammer on August 1.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has documented over 400 acts of vandalism, arson, and other destruction at parishes and other Catholic sites in the United States since 2020. A tracker at CatholicVote.org lists additional attacks.