Church Attack News 07/23/2023
Jul 22, 2023(July 14) Black Louisiana Priest Hospitalized After Machete Attack, Race Cited As Possible Motive | Melville, LA
A Catholic priest is in critical but stable condition after he was attacked on the grounds of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Melville, Louisiana, Thursday evening.
Father Stephen Ugwu, the church pastor, was allegedly approached by 58-year-old Johnny Dwayne Neely of Palmetto, Louisiana, the suspect in the case.
Witnesses said that between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. they saw Neely approach the priest and ask him for food. When the priest refused him, he began to attack the priest with a machete, police said, according to KLFY News.
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(July 14) ‘They’re Not Welcome Here’: Anti-LGBTQ Church Moves To Dallas County Amid Protests | Dallas, TX
Stedfast Baptist Church, which was forced to leave two locations in Tarrant County last year and recently bought a building in Cedar Hill, was the subject of protests Wednesday.
The church was founded in Fort Worth in 2014 and is led by pastor Jonathan Shelley, who advocated for “capital punishment” for gay people at an Arlington City Council meeting last year and, in a sermon, doubted that the Nazis killed six million Jews. In February 2022, the church was evicted from its location in Hurst for violating lease terms that forbade violence and threats.
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