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Go Fund Me page set up to help GA church after vandals trash sanctuary days before Easter

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Vandals heavily damage sanctuary in Colorado (Photo: Go Fund Me)

Smashed musical instruments, shattered glass and holes punched through the walls greeted the congregation of a Colorado church as they discovered the handiwork of vandals who attached the church building early Monday morning.

Investigators believe the damage was done around 3 a.m. Monday. According to a report in the Denver Post, police are looking for three teenage boys who were seen running from the church building of Destiny Outreach Ministries.

“Words can’t describe how heartbreaking this is. You give your life to a community and you invest in the community’s children and their people. This is not our community. This is not the City of Thornton,” Pastor Renee Coventry told Denver’s CBS television affiliate.

A Go Fund Me page has been set up to help the church.  Damage is estimated in the thousands.

Miami man accused of threatening to kill pastor, church member who prayed

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Ramon Ortiz Felipe

A Florida pastor and a member of his congregation escaped injury this week after they say a man pulled a knife on them after they offered to pray with him.

Ramon Ortiz Felipe, 30, was arrested Sunday.  According to a police report, he is charged with aggravated assault at a religious institution, assault and criminal mischief in a place of worship.  The report says the pastor offered to pray with Felipe near a store-front church.  After they prayed, the police report says Felipe pulled out a knife and began damaging church property. The pastor and a church member fled to a safe location and called police.

The police report does not give a motive for the vandalism. Jail records show he remains held on $20,000 in bonds.

UPDATE: Two arrested in GA church vandalism

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Nathaniel E. Rabideau, 19, and Tyler A. Casey, 19, are charged with burglary, criminal damage to property and vandalism to a place of worship.

A Georgia teen charged with vandalism of a church apologized to the pastor in person before turning himself in to police, according to a report from WSB Television. Nathaniel Rabideau, 19, is one of two charged in the vandalism of the Seed Planters Church in McDonough, Georgia.

Rabideau and his accused accomplice, Tyler Casey, 19, of Monroe, of Monroe, Ga, are set to appear in court on Monday on charges of burglary, criminal damage to property and vandalism to a place of worship.

According to 11alive television, the damage was done on March 19 and included Satanic messages spray-painted on the church building walls, a kicked-in door and broken windows.

Pastor Daunta Long told Fox4atlanta that the congregation has been making repairs and plans an Easter Sunday service in the building.  The TV station’s article includes photos of the damage.

The church plans to install a state-of-the-art security system to deter future damage to the building, according to WMAZ.

Symbols of Satan spray-painted inside GA church building

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Police are investigating vandalism at the Seed Planters Church in McDonough, GA in which someone painted pentagrams and other symbols of Satan inside the church building, according to a report from Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.

The vandalism was discovered Monday evening. Fox5Atlanta reports someone pried open a rear door and ransacked the sanctuary.  They painted a demon head with the number 666 on several walls.

The pastor said the congregation is cleaning up the mess and they plan to have services at the church building on Easter Sunday.

A motive for the vandalism has not been determined. Anyone with information about the vandalism is asked to call the McDonough Police Department at 770-957-1218.

Titusville, FL sees rash of church vandalism

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Police and sheriff’s deputies in the Titusville, Florida area call a rash of break-ins and vandalism at churches in the area an epidemic, according to a report from WESH television. The TV station says at least seven churches have been targeted. The station posted a video report to YouTube.

Destruction done by the vandals includes graffiti referencing Satan, broken furniture and instruments and broken windows. Damage at First Presbyterian Church was estimated in the tens of thousands.

The motive of the vandal or vandals is not known.  No other information has been released by law enforcement.