Dozens of headstones vandalized at St. Mary's #Catholic Cemetery, Canton #NY

CANTON, N.Y. (AP) -- Police are investigating an act of vandalism that damaged dozens of headstones at a northern New York cemetery.

The St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Office tells local media outlet that 36 headstones were knocked over or displaced sometime during the weekend at the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in the town of Canton. Deputies say flags and flower pots also were broken.

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Suspected church vandal arrested #Methodist #TN

Kingsport, TENN. -

Kingsport Police arrested a man at the scene of a church vandalism.

Randall Eugene Robbins was arrested outside First Broad Street United Methodist Church Sunday night. The police department received a 911 call about hearing glass breaking and a person loitering around the church.

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Vandalism limits public access at St. John's #Catholic Cathedral in #Fresno #CA

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Crooks are forcing local churches to change the way they operate. The latest victims are parishioners at St. John's Cathedral in downtown Fresno.

The closure is brand new this week after a man kicked down a 110-year-old door inside the cathedral. Valley Catholics are outraged by the crime, especially since the man was caught on camera walking into a sacred room.

Security cameras caught a man repeatedly kicking at the door to the sacristy inside St. John's Cathedral on October 23. In the video, the man pauses after a few attempts then finally breaks through the door destroying a piece of cathedral history.

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Vandals strike church a second time

MANKATO — A Mankato church has been hit by vandals twice since August, but the latest incident resulted in damage to its aging stained-glass windows.

Two stained-glass windows at SS. Peter & Paul's Catholic Church were installed more than a century ago, said Mark Frederick, parish administrator. Someone threw a brick, pieces of cement block and a rock through those windows and two other windows early Friday morning.

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Vandals hit North Spokane church

SPOKANE, Wash - Members of the Mountain View Assembly of God church spent Monday morning trying to clean up hate speech and pornographic images, left behind on their church overnight.

Vandals covered the building with swastikas, racist words and phrases and pornographic drawings.

But, instead of dwelling on the damage, Pastor Dan Henshaw and others rolled up their sleeves and began the work to clean it up.

"Someone must have had a lot of bitterness in their lives," said Pastor Henshaw.

Henshaw can't understand why someone would target the church, especially with a daycare inside.

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Arrest made in LDS church vandal case

LAYTON — Fingerprints left at a church building vandalized in August led police to the possible suspect on Tuesday.

The windows in a building for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at 1410 E. Gentile in Layton, were broken sometime on or before Aug. 21, according to a statement.

Someone had also spray-painted profanity inside the church, said Layton Police Lt. Shawn Horton.

“This was not anti-LDS,” Horton said. “It was not specific, but anti-religion.”

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Church near Tacoma destroyed by suspected arsonist

TACOMA, Wash. -- A 30-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly setting fires to two buildings and a car near Tacoma early Thursday morning, including a church.

The first call to 911 came in around 12:25 a.m. reporting a fire in an abandoned building at 1719 91st Street East.

 About 40 minutes later, a fire was reported at Golgotha Baptist Church in the 8400 of East Portland Avenue. Ten minutes later, a car fire was reported two blocks away.

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