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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 369

church attacks

File: Security officers stand guard outside the Assyrian Orthodox Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Sydney, Australia, April 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
April 29, 2024, 1:11 pm
Australian police say teens planned to buy guns, attack Jews after stabbing priest
Police documents say five teenagers aged 14-17 charged with offenses including conspiring to engage in or planning a terrorist act; one of them attacked Sydney bishop on April 15
By Rod McGuirk
Still image from a livestreamed sermon shows an assailant approaching Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel to stab him at the Assyrian Orthodox Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Sydney, Australia, April 15, 2024. (Screenshot/Christ The Good Shepherd Church, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 17, 2024, 12:11 pm
Sydney Muslim leader: Teenage church stabber’s dad saw no sign of son’s extremism
Lebanese community representative disputes assault’s description as ‘terror,’ says 16-year-old’s father was ‘shocked’ his son attacked clerics during livestreamed service
By mark baker and Rod McGuirk
New South Wales police guard the perimeter of the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Sydney's western suburb of Wakeley after several people were stabbed in the church premises, on April 15, 2024 (David Gray/AFP)
April 15, 2024, 5:28 pm
Four injured in stabbing attack at Assyrian church in Australia, man arrested
Incident occurs during live-streamed service in Sydney suburb central to small Christian community that fled war in Iraq and Syria; second stabbing to rock city in days
By Agencies
Catholic leaders, including Custos Francesco Patton (L), stand around a vandalized statue of Jesus, March 24, 2023 (Filippo De Grazia)
March 30, 2023, 5:45 am
As attacks on Christians become more frequent, a crisis looms for Israel
Church leaders point to inhospitable political atmosphere as they lock compounds at night; government ministries insist they are actively combating ill-treatment
By Lazar Berman
A Maronite Christian center in Ma'alot-Tarshiha was vandalized during the festive period, January 11, 2022. (Michel El Khouri)
January 12, 2023, 9:11 pm
Vandalism discovered at Maronite Christian community center in north
Recently revamped building in city of Ma’alot-Tarshiha had religious items smashed, equipment broken over Christmas period; Maronite leader says ‘everything is destroyed’
By Ash Obel
Crime scene tape surrounds Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)
July 17, 2022, 9:29 pm
Amid increase in violence, US houses of worship bolster security measures
FBI hate crime statistics show that incidents in churches, synagogues, temples and mosques increased 34.8% between 2014 and 2018
By DEEPA BHARATH and LUIS ANDRES HENAO
Members of Pittsburgh's Jewish community at the city's Legacy International Worship Center church to lend support after the FBI uncovered an alleged jihadist terror plot against the church, June 23, 2019. (CBS Pittsburgh screen capture)
June 25, 2019, 2:43 pm
Pittsburgh Jews rally around church after jihadi bomb plot
Rev. Michael Anthony Day, pastor of the Legacy International Worship Center, says first call of support he received was from Rabbi Ron Symons of the Jewish community center
By Marcy Oster
Tributes are left near the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 16, 2019, after a deadly shooting. (Fiona Goodall/Getty Images/via JTA)
June 19, 2019, 6:58 pm
US interfaith leaders gather at FBI HQ to beef up security for houses of worship
First-of-its-kind confab with Jews, Muslims and Christians held at FBI headquarters in Washington amid spate of attacks on religious institutions in US, New Zealand, Sri Lanka
By Ron Kampeas
Smoke and flames rise during a fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in central Paris on April 15, 2019. (Hubert Hitier/AFP)
April 17, 2019, 11:52 pm
Radical rabbi says Notre Dame fire retribution for 13th-century Talmud burning
Shlomo Aviner, who moved to Israel from France in the 1960s, suggests fire that gutted iconic church may have been divine retribution for burning of Jewish manuscripts in 1242
By ToI Staff
A police officer stands guard in front of the Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, March 17, 2019. (AP/Vincent Yu)
March 17, 2019, 4:44 am
Once sanctuaries, houses of worship struggle with security
With high profile attacks targeting churches, mosques and synagogues, seen as ‘soft targets,’ police and clergy try to keep worshipers both safe and serene
By Mike Householder, Rebecca Santana and KELLI KENNEDY
Illustrative photo of Nigerian security forces on February 4, 2016. (AFP)
January 2, 2018, 6:37 am
Gunmen kill 14 churchgoers in Nigeria shooting
Worshipers set upon while returning from a midnight service in oil-rich region that has been beset with violent gang wars
By AFP
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