Once inside, they broke a stained-glass window and metal cross, which was just outside of the camera's range. Detectives from the 63rd Police Precinct tracked down and released images of the suspects.

The Center, a church in Itasca, has been distributing free and sanitized stained glass kits through The Stained Glass Project, helping families to create, for example, crosses to put on windows.

Inuce has created a church illuminated by over 100,000 panes of stained glass that aims to combine "Christian tradition and Chinese local authenticity" in the coastal city of Luoyuan.