church fires
Manhattan’s Middle Collegiate Church begins façade demolition
By Fiona André — November 20, 2023
(RNS) — The congregation is already working on architectural plans with an expected cost of between $30 - $40 million.
Let Middle Collegiate Church rebuild
By Joshua Stanton — December 13, 2022
(RNS) — This is about more than a church or a façade. It’s about a community that has served New York City for hundreds of years.
Arson investigation after fire destroys historic LA church
By Associated Press — September 12, 2022
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities are investigating a potential arson after a fire broke out early Sunday morning at the historic Victory Baptist Church in Los Angeles.
Fire at Cairo Coptic church kills 41, including 15 children
By Samy Magdy — August 15, 2022
CAIRO (AP) — Witnesses said there were many children inside the four-story building, which had two day care facilities.
Middle Church to begin meeting in synagogue on Easter as it awaits restored building
By Adelle M. Banks — April 7, 2022
(RNS) — The Rev. Jacqui Lewis said East End Temple displays ‘an incredible act of generosity and trust to make space in their community for us to tabernacle with them.’
Canadian churches on First Nations land are burning
By Renée Roden — June 29, 2021
(RNS) — As of Tuesday afternoon, six churches on First Nations land in western Canada have been set on fire or burned down. Four of the churches are within an hour’s drive of one another in southeastern British Columbia.
After Middle Church fire, advice from houses of worship that have survived disaster
By Adelle M. Banks — December 15, 2020
(RNS) — ‘Document everything. Cross every T. Dot every I,’ says an African Methodist Episcopal pastor whose Tennessee church building was hit by a tornado.
House fire devours Baptist church in Savannah, Georgia
By Associated Press — July 22, 2019
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Reports say the homes and church were vacant at the time of the fire, and no injuries have been reported.
Authorities say deputy’s son behind fires at black churches
By Melinda Deslatte — April 11, 2019
OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — Holden Matthews, 21, faces arson charges in connection with the blazes in and around Opelousas, a city of 16,000 where the flame-gutted remains of the buildings evoked memories of civil rights era violence.
100 investigators probing La. fires that destroyed three black churches
By Adelle M. Banks — April 9, 2019
(RNS) — Investigators are trying to determine if the three fires at historic Baptist churches in Opelousas and Port Barre are related or if any of them are tied to a blaze at a Pentecostal church in the town of Vivian.
More than $180,000 raised for church burned, marked with ‘Vote Trump’ graffiti
By Adelle M. Banks — November 3, 2016
(RNS) Thousands of people pledged to raise money for Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville by midday Thursday (Nov. 3), far exceeding the original goal of $10,000.
Suspect charged with setting two in the string of seven St. Louis area church fires
By Christine Byers — October 31, 2015
ST. LOUIS — Although the locations of the fires in predominantly African-American neighborhoods gave rise to speculation that the motive might be race-related, the suspect is black.
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