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A leading Roman Catholic church is holding a special service after one of its Holy Communion wafers was stolen, in a film posted on YouTube, and then desecrated.
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A film uploaded to the popular video-sharing website, apparently shot on a mobile phone during High Mass at the London Oratory, shows a young man kneeling (see video at link) to the receive the wafer, which Catholics regard as the body of Christ once it has been blessed, from a priest.
The video then shows the wafer, known as a Host, being later placed next to a condom in protest at the Vatican's stance on contraception.
It was then apparently sent to Dr Paul Z. Myers, an atheist academic in American who claims he stuck a nail through it and threw it in his rubbish bin.
He has received hundreds of complaints on his website, while the London Oratory - linked to the school that Tony Blair's children attended - has called the incident "very disturbing" and is calling worshippers to pray for the conversion of those responsible.
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