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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Bruce Golding

Catholic diocese tries to stop Trump’s border wall that ‘desecrates’ 29-foot tall Jesus statue

A Catholic diocese in New Mexico is waging a legal holy war against the Trump administration's plan to use 14 acres of church land for a new border wall — saying the plan would desecrate a 25-foot-tall, mountaintop statue of Jesus nearby.

In court papers filed Friday, lawyers for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces said the church would fight the administration in court before it “surrenders even a square inch of its sacred land.”

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