A protest by feminists took place during Sunday Mass presided over by the local archbishop. Indigenous women defended the Cathedral. 

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Newsroom (09/11/2021 10:15 AM, Gaudium Press) Last week, a group of feminists vandalized the Cathedral of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Local indigenous women reacted immediately. “They came with paint and banners to protest at the door of the Church, and they spray-painted the Church,” one of the indigenous women reported.

When a group of indigenous women realized that the protesters were disrupting Mass, attempting to graffiti the inside of the Cathedral, they decided to confront them.

“We were attending mass and since no one reacted we ran outside and used our whips to defend the church from the bad things that were happening,” one of the women told the local media.

Asked about how they expelled the feminists, the woman showed her whip and said, “With this. And so we are going to do with all the people who come to disrespect this place, do bad things.”

Another indigenous woman who helped expel the attackers emphasized that, with their whips, they will “make our Church be respected. This is what our parents taught us to do when we were little. So that [the attackers] may learn how it is here in Santa Cruz and in all of Bolivia,” she concluded.

Compiled by Gustavo Kralj