Steve Watson – modernity.news Aug 29, 2025
In 2024, the United States witnessed a significant uptick in acts of hostility targeting churches, with a total of 436 documented incidents—a sharp increase from 315 in 2023 and nearly double the 230 reported in 2022.
This data, compiled by the Family Research Council (FRC), highlights a troubling trend amid broader societal shifts, including a decline in regular religious attendance from 42% to 30% over the past two decades, according to Gallup polls.
The incidents spanned a wide range of hostile actions across 43 states. Vandalism was the most prevalent, accounting for 284 cases that included property destruction, defacement, burglary, and ransacking.
NEW: Data from the Family Research Council shows a stunning surge of attacks on churches in America.
Wow. Churches are under siege.
Instances of hostility [including vandalism] against U.S. churches are skyrocketing:
2024: 415 incidents
2023: 485 incidents
2018–2021 combined:… pic.twitter.com/CDOCpA76Wo— Vigilant Fox 力 (@VigilantFox) August 29, 2025
Arson followed with 55 events, encompassing both confirmed attempts and fires of uncertain origin, occasionally linked to individuals struggling with mental health.
Gun-related incidents surged to 28, more than doubling from 12 the previous year, involving threats, brandishing during services, and actual shootings. Bomb threats numbered 14, primarily hoaxes delivered via calls or emails.
JUST RELEASED: New edition of our Hostility Against Churches Report
Family Research Council identified 415 hostile incidents in 2024, affecting a total of 383 churches.
— Family Research Council (@FRCdc) August 11, 2025
Additionally, 47 other violent acts were recorded, such as assaults during church break-ins, exemplified by an event at Zion Baptist Church in Kentucky. Geographically, California led with 40 incidents, followed by Pennsylvania at 29, and Florida and New York tied at 25 each.
Motives behind these acts varied widely, from unknown causes and financial theft (like stealing copper wiring) to political disagreements on issues like sexuality, and even juvenile pranks.
Notably, pro-abortion motivations dropped dramatically to just 2 incidents, compared to 59 in 2022 following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Hostility related to LGBT issues persisted at 33 cases, a slight decrease from 42 in 2023, while satanic motives fell to 1 from 12 the prior year.
The FRC, which has been tracking these incidents, has itself been designated as an anti-LGBT hate group by the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center.
As religious landscapes evolve, these findings underscore ongoing challenges to places of worship in America.
The findings come in the wake of a horrific shooting at a Catholic Church school in Minneapolis.
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Three quarters of Brits are unwilling to fight for UK in the event of war
England no longer exists ” its been killed off by racist politicians
Over three in five Brits would not fight for the UK if the country came under attack, shocking new polling shows. The polling conducted exclusively for the Express found that 68% of those asked said they were not willing to join the armed forces in the event of war, with a further 6% saying they were unsure. the figures show that in every age bracket, the majority of respondents said they would be ‘not very willing’ or ‘not willing at all’ to serve, including 18 to 24 year olds where 62% of those asked would be unwilling to serve, combined with 58% of 25 to 34 years olds. Earlier this year, the head of the Armed Forces Admiral Sir Tony Radakin refuted claims that young people were unwilling to serve their zio run country, blaming the ongoing recruitment crisis within the UK military on “behind the times” recruitment practices.
Scaremongering has worked before, but Brits claim its no longer their country
British culture way of life and even christianity is being eroded and attacked by the jew
a lot of this was over operation templeman
the exposure of homosexual priests abusing small boys
the archbishop of canterbury justin welby hid up the rapes and murders of john smyth
other bishops also had to go including liverpool wales etc exposed as homosexuals
i myself was badly abused in a catholic orphanage
the christian church knows this problem yet just moved the offender away
the catholic church of st george in walthamstow was burnt down over the abuse of its preists
I lost faith in “religion” and it’s priests during the “covid” psyop when the people were deserted by their church. Compare this to 150 years ago when Irish priests were at the forefront of the war against the British Crown.
LOL..
you can almost imagine the the cartoon yiddin G men with an overcoat and looney toons bomb..chuckling maniacally..
Of course we’ve had all this in Yourope too.. and that tells you it’s an op…the froggies have had dozens of cathedrals arsoned including Notre Dame..
it#’s all part of the outrage porn and agit prop…of course it’s hard to blame it on moslems in the yankee asylum because most of its imports are catholic and imported by thee catholics..
so what youll get in the rubber room continent will be satanists or leftists or troons or anti vaxers or some other Cia creation..
which funnily enough is what you’ve got..zio henchmen like the vigilant fox will of course bring you round to standing with IS-RA-EL..
lol..to save the ‘West’… and freedumb and demockracy..
all jewish incited ! yankees dont forget you help
with your zionist suport that dayly in gaza are
killed innocent children more worth than your
zionist preachers .
From the God point of view the Zionist churches deserve attack, but the who and why are not made clear in the article
The Jews for some strange reason get so much press these days as the center of virtually everything that you cannot help but make the comparison. Notice how you never really hear of these desecrations to Christian places of worship through the mainstream media, but the defacing of a Jewish synagogue with a swastika gets front page. Then you find out that in most cases the Jews did their own defacing essentially as false-flag work to build up legal opposition against anyone who would criticize them.
Christ said this sort of thing would happen….hatred for His name sake…and it isn’t just thanks to Talmudic Jewry, either, the Synagogue of Satan…. this could be a precursor to that “end times” scenario in Revelation, as Christianity is the most persecuted religion on Earth these days. Just sayin’….
Destroying churches or church property is just another way of using religion to sow conflict.
This article doesn’t tell us much. We need to see numbers of existing houses of worship, not just churches, compared with the number attacked, then the same two categories grouped by religion, by race, by state, by large cities within states, and by liberal vs conservative.
That’s a lot more tedious to compile, but, as they say, the devil is in the details. Better to catch him than just go on running around forever putting out the fires he sets.
I want to know if there were 0 mosques attacked, 1 hindu temple, 5 synagogues, and 409 christian churches. And, if 405 of the 409 were conservative. Also if Catholics are getting hit much harder in Minnesota and New York than in North Dakota and Pennsylvania. However the numbers come out, I want to know.
rothschilds communist take over of russia in 1917
saw milions of christians killed
Ukraine had its harvest stolen each year and were being starved to death
like palestine today and the UK tomorrow
In w w 2 churchill obsessed by his black team of psychics wanted to capture all the christian artifacts same as stalin
Adolf Hitler hada special team to also capture and save all holy relics
Trevor Roper told the story of the race to get the spear of destiny which pierced christs side
we are seeing now the left wing destruction of anything christian
tony blair was a major offender
“Christianity is the most persecuted religion on Earth”
There is/was Christ and there was/is “Christianity” which has become so divided in itself and over the son of God and how to properly behave in the earthly economy/hell of money changers that both words have hardly ANYTHING in common anymore. What did Jesus teach of ones own altar and where to find it or what to do with “the coins of Ceasar”? Ah well, that’s not really the issue in modern heretism is it?
Sky News Australia…..fuckin’ rubbish……
Recently they’ve hired sycophant women to read funny ha ha news…..which quickly becomes hugely unfunny.
One of these readers says she is of Iranian origin.Usually she hunts down idiots who make fools of themselves infront of the camera…..then contrasts them with fuckwits.Their current tame black is C.J heliumweight twat.
Anyway they’re absolutely awful
One thing you can say is JEWS TOTALLY CONTROL THE USA MEDIA.
These media figures know what the story is……..suck up to the jews or expect to be fired…..and they’ll be telling you about their suffering at the same time.
NOTICE.These suffering people have butchered 50,000 mostly young people……their power has ensured the story has virtually disappeared!!.
Always remember most of the “experts” Sky “News” has are crypto jews…..
Currently I am getting jewish activists hanging around…..these ones look like they could be paid professionals??!!….
Tell Sky News to tone down the idiotic American jewish TV.
Yeah, but 95 percent of all British men vote willing to go out hunting migrant invaders, IF their government supplies full-auto battle rifles and ammunition.
96 percent of British women are willing to cheer them on!
For the purposes of this paragraph, “British” means White Anglo-Saxons or Celts.