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July 22, 2017

After protests over Satanic memorial, city nixes all religious symbols

Sisters Shirley Citrowski and Carol Speich pause to look at a monument of a soldier at Veterans Memorial Park in Belle Plaine, Minn., June 9. A proposed monument that Massachusetts-based Satanic Temple wants to install in the park has roiled some members of the community, including the two women religious, who were born and raised in Belle Plaine but now live elsewhere.

BELLE PLAINE, Minn. – Two days after hundreds of people – many of them Catholic – from around the country descended on Belle Plaine to protest the installation of a Satanic memorial in the city's veterans park, the City Council voted unanimously July 17 to nix all religious symbols there.

Published in International