NOT ALL AS IT SEEMS (EP News)

Priests in a local Milan parish mistook a young couple’s frequent visits to the church as devotion to a Madonna statue as the two sat quietly in front of it for an hour on a regular basis. The couple had been visiting the church for about a month before priests realised that the two weren’t meditating in front of the Madonna, but were using an electrical outlet located adjacent to the statue to recharge their cell phone. Parish priest Don Antonio Colombo said that the couple would not be shooed away. “They come here because they don’t have a house,” he told the newspaper Corriere della Sera. “The church is their house and letting them charge their mobile phone is a bit like giving them a glass of water.”