A man smashed a stained glass window and verbally abused a reverend in a Leeds city centre chapel.
Aaaj Mahdodi caused £1,000 worth of damage and shouted abuse during the disturbance at Mill Hill Chapel on September 18 last year.
The 26-year-old was handed a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to pleaded guilty to religiously aggravated threatening behaviour, religiously aggravated harassment and religiously aggravated criminal damage.
Prosecutor Nadim Bashir said the defendant picked up stones from the ground outside and threw them at a stained glass window, causing it to smash.
Mr Bashir said Reverend Joe James was inside the chapel at the time of the incident and went to get his mobile phone to contact police when he saw the damage being caused.
Leeds Crown Court heard Mahdodi shouted slurs and at one point charged at the Reverend.
Mahdodi was arrested and admitted what he had done when interviewed.
The prosecutor said: "He said he was angry at the time and if members of the public who were present did not like him they should give him a passport and send him back to his own country."
Mahdodi committed a further offence of criminal damage at Leeds Methodist Mission, on Oxford Place, four days after he was bailed.
He was arrested when police saw him using a large plank of wood to hit rocks towards the windows.
When interviewed about that offence Mahdodi said he 'didn't like churches'.
Soheil Khan, mitigating, said his client had been suffering from mental health problems which were made worse by his abuse of illicit drugs and is now ashamed of his behaviour.
The barrister said Mahdodi, who has since moved to Harford Street, Middlesbrough, has found a new partner.
Mahdodi was was given a four-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, with a requirement to complete 30 days of rehabilitation activity.
He was also made the subject of an electronically-monitored curfew for three three months.
Sentencing, Judge Geoffrey Marson QC said: "We live in a tolerant society.
"We are tolerant of all regions, including yours, and you should be tolerant of other religions."
