Report Shows Alarming Rise in Church Attacks During 2023's First Quarter

 

Report shows alarming rise in church attacks during 2023's first quarter Curated for you byCP Editors Good afternoon! It's Thursday, April 13, and today's headlines include a report on church attacks in 2023, a Christian astronaut who is set to pilot NASA's first crewed trip around the moon in more than a half-century, and details from the National Action Network Convention. There were 69 acts of vandalism against churches during the first three months of 2023, according to the Family Research Council's "Hostility Against Churches" report.  Forty-three incidents were documented in January, while there were fourteen acts of vandalism in February and 12 in March. The total figure marks a significant increase in the number of attacks compared to previous years.  FRC recorded 15 attacks against churches in the first quarter of 2018, 12 in the same period in 2019, 14 in the first quarter of 2021, and 22 in the first four months of 2022. 2020 saw no attacks on churches in its first three months.  Attacks were reported in 29 states, with the highest number of incidents occurring in North Carolina (7), followed by Ohio and Tennessee at five each, and Florida, Missouri and Pennsylvania at four each.  To learn more about the attacks, which including incidents of vandalism and theft, click here. Details of the report come as Konnarock Baptist Church of Washington County in Virginia revealed that vandals smashed windows and spray-painted profanity and vulgar images on the exterior and interior of the church on Easter Sunday.  Some of the offensive messages and images spray-painted were "Believe in Satan, "I'm not sorry," a pentagram, the number 666, phallic images and a stick figure hanging from a noose. Continue reading. P.S. Get rewarded for sharing our newsletters! Sign-up for the CP referral program—the more you share, the more you earn. Scroll to the bottom of this newsletter to get started today!