New report finds 174% increase in attacks on US churches
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The number of documented attacks on churches has steadily increased in recent months and years, with a dramatic increase in 2022 in abortion-related vandalism linked to the Supreme Court’s overturning of UNITED STATES of Roe v. Wade, according to a new landmark report.
THE report from the DC-based Family Research Council uncovered a total of 420 documented acts of hostility against 397 individual churches between January 2018 and September 2022. There were 50 in 2018, but that number quickly rose to 83 in 2019, 96 in 2021, and 137 in 2022 (until in September). There were 54 documented incidents of hostility against churches in 2020 – a decrease from the previous year that the report’s authors attributed to the pandemic when much of the country was in lockdown or not traveling a lot.
The number of attacks on churches from 2018 to 2022 represents a 174% increase.
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