{"id":108623,"date":"2026-05-11T15:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/108623\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:50:13","slug":"israeli-troops-get-prison-for-desecration-of-virgin-mary-statue-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/108623\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli troops get prison for desecration of Virgin Mary statue in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YM2MUJVL4FC3LI3SRXBCHHWPT4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">JERUSALEM \u2014 Two <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israeli<\/a> soldiers will spend weeks in military prison for desecration of a Christian object after one stuck a cigarette in the mouth of a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/lebanon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lebanon<\/a> and the other photographed it.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"I57253C2VVDJVBX7Y6VIRLDEPU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JERUSALEM \u2014 Two Israeli soldiers will spend weeks in military prison for desecration of a Christian object after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2371,470,197,37,768,37399,1597,463,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-108623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","9":"tag-christianity","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-military-and-defense","13":"tag-ml-israel-lebanon","14":"tag-prisons","15":"tag-religion","16":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116556740901906541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}