{"id":20735,"date":"2022-03-04T14:56:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T22:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=20735"},"modified":"2022-03-04T11:27:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T19:27:01","slug":"report-early-2022-marked-by-epidemic-of-anti-christian-arson-and-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/report-early-2022-marked-by-epidemic-of-anti-christian-arson-and-vandalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Early 2022 Marked by \u2018Epidemic\u2019 of Anti-Christian Arson and Vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.<\/a> – February 22, 2022<\/p>\n

ROME \u2014 Christian churches in Europe have been \u201ctargets of repetitive vandalism, desecration and even arson\u201d in the first two months of 2022, a human rights watchdog group reports Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Every year sees numerous incidents of vandalism against nativity scenes, notes the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe (OIDAC), but the beginning of 2022 has also seen \u201cmany incidents of threats, arson and severe vandalism\u201d against Christian sites.<\/p>\n

It is \u201cterrible to see so many churches being attacked with vandalism and arson in such a short period of time,\u201d declares OIDAC executive director Madeleine Enzlberger. \u201cThe amount of vandalism that took place in France at the beginning of the year even prompted the Ministry of Interior to release a new four million Euro budget to secure religious sites\u201d following \u201can epidemic of attacks against churches at the beginning of 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the minister in charge of cults, my job is to protect them,\u201d said<\/a> French Interior Minister G\u00e9rald Darmanin. \u201cIn this way, we increase the means that make it possible to equip places of worship, in particular with video protection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, arsonists set fire to the Paul Gerhardt Church in Berlin on January 20, and the flames destroyed<\/a> the altar, an image of Christ, and the organ, OIDAC observed, and 30 Firefighters were required to extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n

On February 13, the Jackson Church of Scotland in Airdrie, a North Lanarkshire town near Glasgow, was also set ablaze<\/a> in an attack that police are treating as arson. The vandals started the fire around 3:00 am and the fire brigade was called around 4:00 am, OIDAC reports, and the fire caused extensive damage to the church vestibule.<\/p>\n

Physical violence against Christian sites is not the only form of anti-Christian activity taking place, OIDAC states<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. – February 22, 2022 ROME \u2014 Christian churches in Europe have been \u201ctargets of repetitive vandalism, desecration and even arson\u201d in the first two months of 2022, a human rights watchdog group reports Tuesday. Every year sees numerous incidents of vandalism against nativity scenes, notes the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination … Continue reading Report: Early 2022 Marked by \u2018Epidemic\u2019 of Anti-Christian Arson and Vandalism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[175,177,125,28,15790,16323,16515,241],"class_list":["post-20735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-horse","tag-christianity","tag-christians","tag-church","tag-europe","tag-gerald-darmanin","tag-madeleine-enzlberger","tag-oidac","tag-persecution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5or","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20737,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20735\/revisions\/20737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}