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(ANALYSIS) Security cameras at St. Columba Catholic Church in Brooklyn showed five people, in the dead of night, trying to force their way inside.
When they failed, the suspects settled for breaking a stained-glass window and attacking a nearby cross. Police noted that this Jan. 27 crime was the latest of many New York City attacks on churches, synagogues, sacred symbols and religious schools, medical facilities and offices. Authorities referred this case to the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force.
Headlines of this kind have become old news, according to the 2024 religious liberty report from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. What has changed, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, is that anti-Christian vandalism often includes spray-painted slogans such as, “If abortion isn't safe, then neither are you,” swastikas and nasty graffiti.
“The general failure ... of the federal government to apprehend and prosecute the perpetrators of such attacks, in contrast with the numerous charges brought against pro-life protestors outside abortion clinics, received significant attention in Congress,” noted the report. “In hearings in both the House and the Senate, Republicans accused the Department of Justice and the FBI of bias against Catholics and Christians.”
Political activists seeking additional evidence that this issue has become politically charged will be able to quote former President Donald Trump’s Feb. 22 speech to the National Religious Broadcasters.
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When they failed, the suspects settled for breaking a stained-glass window and attacking a nearby cross. Police noted that this Jan. 27 crime was the latest of many New York City attacks on churches, synagogues, sacred symbols and religious schools, medical facilities and offices. Authorities referred this case to the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force.
Headlines of this kind have become old news, according to the 2024 religious liberty report from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. What has changed, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, is that anti-Christian vandalism often includes spray-painted slogans such as, “If abortion isn't safe, then neither are you,” swastikas and nasty graffiti.
“The general failure ... of the federal government to apprehend and prosecute the perpetrators of such attacks, in contrast with the numerous charges brought against pro-life protestors outside abortion clinics, received significant attention in Congress,” noted the report. “In hearings in both the House and the Senate, Republicans accused the Department of Justice and the FBI of bias against Catholics and Christians.”
Political activists seeking additional evidence that this issue has become politically charged will be able to quote former President Donald Trump’s Feb. 22 speech to the National Religious Broadcasters.
Continued below.
On Religion: Are Attacks Against Churches ‘Hate Crimes’ Or Old News?
(ANALYSIS) What has changed in the last few years, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, is that anti-Christian vandalism often includes spray-painted slogans such as, "If abortion isn't safe, then neither are you," swastikas and nasty graffiti.
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