Attacks on American churchgoers in 2023 are on pace to make it the worst in six years, according to a Washington non-profit group.
“Criminal acts against churches have been steadily on the rise for the past several years, and the first quarter of 2023 has continued the upward trend,” the Family Research Council reported on April 10 in a supplement to its issue brief titled “Hostility to Churches.”
The killing of six people in the Covenant School shooting on March 27 in Tennessee, and vandalism on church properties, point to a spike in attacks against Christians since the council started tracking such events in 2018.
By Easter Sunday on April 9, believers had witnessed three times as many acts of hostility as in the same timeframe in 2022, the FRC reported….