Dallas church cleaning up after hate crime by vandals
Volunteers today began removing the satanic symbols and hateful words that vandals spray-painted on Greater Cornerstone Baptist Church in Lake Highlands. Pastor David Wilson said he originally planned to wait for officials to assess the damage, which he discovered Monday. But today he decided the sight of the crime was too much. So rather than go
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Swastika probably vandalism, not hate crime, Humansville police chief says
Humansville Police Chief Darrell LeAn thinks the swastika painted on a Humansville church was vandalism, not a deliberate hate crime. LeAn said the swastika was painted backwards and was carefully placed to avoid an open sign on the door at the Humansville Harvest Fellowship Church. The door was the
Church vandalism arrest made
A Hartwell man suspected of vandalizing an Ila church last month and kidnapping a woman was arrested Wednesday in Hart County, according to Madison County sheriff's investigator Pat Holl. Carey Durrett, 71, is charged with burglary, damage to property and vandalism to a place of worship. He remained
Swastika, other vandalism at temple not yet a ‘hate crime’
Vandals scratched a swastika, "KKK," "Hail Hitler" and the N-word on doors inside Temple Beth El in Boca Raton on Feb. 15. Was this a hate crime? The synagogue's leader is unsure, police are still trying to make that determination and the Anti-Defamation League believes there
Police: Three teens admit to anti-Semitic graffiti at Boca Raton synagogue, charged with vandalism
BOCA RATON — Boca Raton police on Friday announced the arrest of three juveniles who authorities said admitted vandalizing the Temple Beth El synagogue, where property was damaged and anti-Semitic and racist messages were carved into doors. The three suspects were juveniles — all about 15
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Vandals target church with ‘no god’ graffiti
GRAFFITI vandals in Albury have reached a new low, spraying the words “no god” on a church sign and leaving a cross on the main door of the building. The same vandals who struck at St David’s Uniting Church also appear to have defaced the nearby Wilson Street entrance to the multi-storey
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Boca Raton police: Synagogue vandalism a hate crime
BOCA RATON – Boca Raton police on Tuesday were investigating the vandalism of a Boca Raton synagogue as a hate crime after burglars broke in, damaged property and left behind anti-Semitic and racist messages. Firefighters responding to a fire alarm around 10 p.m. Monday at Temple Beth El in the
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Man accused of tearing apart Erie church
An Erie man tossed around crosses, candles and other objects as he tore up a westside church Monday morning. Police said Chad M. Walburn, 25, broke through one of the doors of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and caused extensive damage to the building, 643 W. 17th St. Church members said Walburn was
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Another church attacked: glass of grotto broken, statue disfigured
Kundapur: The large scale assaults on churches seem to have taken a toll in the state. Miscreants have attacked another church here in Kundapur Taluk of Udupi district. They have damaged the glass frame of a grotto of a church and have disfigured the idol of Infant Jesus. While speaking to SahilOnline,
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Man pleads guilty for messages on synagogues
Police found John E. Grogan's fingerprint on stickers depicting anti-Semitic, anti-gay and racist messages that were slapped on four synagogues in Norfolk. On Wednesday, Grogan, 29, pleaded guilty to two counts each of injuring a church and conspiring to commit a felony. When he was arrested in
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NY suspect pleads guilty to spray-painting swastikas on synagogues, weapons possession
NEW YORK – A man has pleaded guilty to charges he spray-painted swastikas and spread fliers reading "Kill All Jews" around his Brooklyn neighborhood. Brooklyn prosecutors said Thursday that Ivaylo Ivanov also pleaded guilty to possessing a secret cache of weapons discovered at his home
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Vandals leave Nixa church with big mess, thousands in damages
Nixa — Members of Calvary Baptist Church continue to clean up after vandals struck the Nixa church sometime last weekend. Pastor Carl Curtis said the vandals likely entered the church's Sunday school building sometime between Friday and Monday and proceeded to trash the two-story building. They
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Cemetery vandals paint swastikas
PORTLAND — The discovery of swastikas spray-painted on four headstones in a Jewish cemetery this week has revolted the region's Jewish community. Emily Chaleff, executive director of the Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine, issued a statement Wednesday saying the alliance hopes the
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Eastwood church takes action against vandals
A CHURCH is counting the cost after vandals smashed stained glass windows and stole copper piping. Steel mesh guards which cost £1,800 have been put over the windows at St Mary's Parish Church, in Eastwood, after vandals smashed 25 panes of glass, which cost £300 to replace. The copper
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Church Attacks And Govt Responsibility
BANGALORE, Feb 3 — The Church has no affiliation to any political party. The Church wishes good governance just like any common citizen would wish for. The government cannot be blamed for the Church attacks, but it cannot shirk its responsibility either. Now that the Justice B.K. Somashekara Inquiry
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