Forget the old adage that "cleanliness is next to godliness". Graffiti -- of a sort -- is now welcomed at the spiritual home of global Anglicanism in southeast England, to the ire of US Vice President JD Vance.

A new exhibition of graffiti-style artworks posing ordinary people's questions to God now adorns the hallowed walls of Canterbury Cathedral and has invited controversy all the way from southeast England to Washington DC.

Featuring eternal human queries like "why all the suffering?" and "are you there?", they mark the pillars and walls of the crypt of the sixth-century cathedral in Kent, southeast of London.

The scrawls, some black-and-white and others brightly coloured, contrast with the grand stone edifices and stained-glass windows.

Exhibition curator Jacquiline Creswell told

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