A billboard outside an Auckland church attacking Donald Trump has been stolen but the church will resurrect it.
The thieves left only two poles in the ground.
The deed was done in broad daylight while the minister, Rev Glynn Cardy, was inside the church conducting a funeral service.
The billboard put up outside St Luke's Church, Remuera, for Lent a couple of weeks ago, depicts the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for US president looking across at Jesus Christ nailed to the cross while holding a hammer in his hand and declaring: "I don't like losers".
Mr Cardy says he's not sure why the thieves stole the sign.
"Some people don't like the billboard because they like Donald Trump. Some don't like the billboard because it infers Jesus was a loser.
"Whereas others, like myself and those here at the community of St Luke, see the cartoon as showing that the values and views of people like Mr Trump are completely at odds with those of Jesus."
St Luke's will be replacing the billboard after the church's Easter Sunday celebrations of the resurrection of Jesus, and intends to keep the billboard up as long as the issue of Mr Trump's candidacy remains undecided.
It's not the first time Mr Cardy has used shocking billboards to get across a message.
When he was at Auckland's St Matthew-in-the-City Church, he unveiled a risque billboard of Jesus' mother looking dejected after unsatisfying sex with Joseph in 2009.
And again in 2011, the progressive church opted to depict a contemplative Virgin Mary holding a positive pregnancy test.
