HELLO JESUS

Catholics in the former Portuguese colony of Macau in China are up in arms after some enterprising soul in the local tourism department decided to spice up the promotion of its UNESCO-listed buildings.

Images of the facade of 16th century St Paul's Cathedral (bottom left) have been plastered over one of the enclave's modern buildings, the Macau Tower (above centre).

It soon became clear to the tourism promotion people however that pictures of a church lovingly built by Jesuit priests and showered in its heyday with gifts by the crowned heads of Europe, needed some cosmetic improvements to make them relevant to modern visitors.

So they put their heads together and came up with a brilliant idea. Why not replace the carved stone statue of Jesus seen on the real life building (above right), with an image of Hello Kitty in the niche instead?

Such a brilliant idea surely deserves an earthly, as well as heavenly, reward. Watch this space for photos of the offending posters.