Parishioners at St. Ann Catholic Church in DeBary contacted police after noticing a statue was missing from the parish's prayer garden after Sunday evening Mass in the latest act of vandalism at a church. DEBARY, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — A DeBary man was arrested and charged after allegedly snatching a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary from St. Ann Catholic Church and tossing it into the nearby woods last month. In May, a vandal severed the head of Our Lord Jesus Christ from a picturesque statue depicting His Sacred Heart outside St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in East Islip, New York. READ: Statue desecrated at Long Island parish in latest act of church vandalismJust this week in nearby Queens, an unidentified man smashed a statue of the Blessed Virgin at St. Rita Catholic Church in the borough’s Dutch Kills section. The Diocese of Brooklyn said this was the fourth act of vandalism at St. Rita’s Church since 2024.