The Trinidad and To­ba­go Coun­cil of Evan­gel­i­cal Church­es has con­demned the des­e­cra­tion of the Taber­na­cle of Prayer Church on Aber­crom­by Street in Port-of-Spain, where the sanc­tu­ary was stripped of all its elec­tron­ic equip­ment, in ad­di­tion to food ham­pers for the less for­tu­nate in the com­mu­ni­ty.

They are call­ing for a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mat­ter.

The in­ci­dent took place last Fri­day, where CCTV footage cap­tured four men break­ing in­to the church. Ac­cord­ing to the Se­nior Pas­tor Bish­op Jan­kee Raghu­nanan, one of them en­tered through the roof and pro­ceed­ed to open the door from the in­side, al­low­ing the oth­ers to en­ter.

They drank com­mu­nion wine, scat­ter­ing the bot­tles on the floor, as well as smear­ing the chairs with sar­dines.

"The pain that is be­ing felt by the Bish­op and his con­gre­ga­tion is a pain that we are all feel­ing be­cause when one mem­ber of the Body of Christ hurt, we hurt," a state­ment said.