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A fire damaged a vacant former church in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday night after crews responded around 7:10 p.m.
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Windwood Free Will Baptist Church in southeast Oklahoma City sustained thousands of dollars in damage after an indoor fire that authorities deemed arson, alongside vandalism including graffiti.
Police said a group of unidentified men attacked the Feroz Din Memorial Church in Kot Radha Kishan (Kasur district, Punjab), ransacking the building and desecrating the Bible.
Five Muslim men armed with sticks and sharp objects attacked Pastor Joseph Kanooni of Revival Mission Centre Church in Kaliro, eastern Uganda, seriously injuring him while he was preparing for an all-night prayer service, according to sources.
Cleveland Police arrested a 41-year-old man in connection with the vandalism of an Our Lady statue outside St Alphonsus Church in North Ormesby, after it was repeatedly pushed until it fell and was smashed, causing “thousands of pounds worth of damage.”
A late-December claim of attacks in northeastern Nigeria is now paired with early-January propaganda threatening Christians countrywide—raising concern for churches and faith-based operations beyond ISWAP’s core areas.
Weekly Field Brief
A 70-year-old man was killed and another person was severely injured in a firecracker explosion on the premises of St. Peter’s and St. Paul’s Jacobite Syrian Church at Kadathy near Muvattupuzha in Ernakulam district, Kerala.
Residents and a Catholic diocesan spokesman provided higher fatality estimates and reported that some of those abducted were children, while residents also said bodies remained unrecovered due to security fears.
Police were deployed after some residents vandalized the bus, and authorities said an investigation has been initiated to establish the cause.
