{"id":82866,"date":"2026-05-12T08:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82866"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:28:16","slug":"israeli-troops-jailed-for-desecration-of-virgin-mary-statue-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/israeli-troops-jailed-for-desecration-of-virgin-mary-statue-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Troops Jailed For Desecration Of Virgin Mary Statue In Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> The Guardian:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Two Israeli soldiers will spend weeks in military prison for the desecration of a Christian object after one stuck a cigarette in the mouth of a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/lebanon\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Lebanon<\/a>\u00a0and the other photographed it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The photo of the soldier, a cigarette dangling from his own mouth, went viral and sparked widespread outrage. It was the latest act by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon to be denounced as anti-Christian.\u00a0Israel\u2019s military said the soldier posing would be jailed for 21 days and the one who photographed him 14.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1778574496\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Israeli Troops Jailed For Desecration Of Virgin Mary Statue In Lebanon\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian: Two Israeli soldiers will spend weeks in military prison for the desecration of a Christian object after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82867,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82866\/revisions\/82867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}