
Federal Agents Investigating Fire at Catholic Church in Arizona
St. Anthony of Padua Church in Casa Grande, Arizona, reported on Facebook on Friday that an early morning fire on Oct. 18 had damaged the church building.
St. Anthony of Padua Church in Casa Grande, Arizona, reported on Facebook on Friday that an early morning fire on Oct. 18 had damaged the church building.
The suspect, Billy James Sweeten, 48, is currently in police custody at Marion County Jail.
According to the latest statements from the Salem Police Department, the cause of the fire is currently unknown.
The fire occurred on the one-year anniversary of the overturning of the 1973 landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
According to the parish’s website, Pope John Paul II visited the church on June 25, 2001, during his pastoral visit to Ukraine.
St. Simon’s, Partick, a 163-year-old church in Glasgow, was reported to be on fire in the early morning of July 28.
According to the San Gabriel Fire Department, Corey had already been arrested and sentenced to three years in prison for an unrelated incident when investigators pegged him as a person of interest in the Mission San Gabriel case.
France is losing religious buildings at the rate of one every two weeks.
Alejandra Frausto, the Mexican government’s Secretary of Culture, lamented the March 7 destruction of the church on social media.
According to a Saturday evening statement from the sheriff's office, Shields poured gasoline in the church’s foyer and ignited it, after crashing his minivan through the parish's front door.
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