An angel restored with ‌the ​face of Italian Prime Minister ‌Giorgia Meloni has been scrubbed off a wall painting in ​a central Rome church on the orders of the parish priest, following a political and ‍clerical uproar.

One of two angels ​in a chapel of the Basilica of St Lawrence in Lucina, close to ​government headquarters, ⁠was altered to look virtually identical to the 49-year-old right-wing leader, Italy’s first woman premier.