{"id":1529671,"date":"2022-06-27T16:04:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T20:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529671"},"modified":"2022-06-27T16:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T20:04:28","slug":"state-police-launch-criminal-investigation-into-suspected-arson-of-historic-church-after-roe-v-wade-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-police-launch-criminal-investigation-into-suspected-arson-of-historic-church-after-roe-v-wade-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"State Police Launch Criminal Investigation Into Suspected \u2018Arson\u2019 Of Historic Church After Roe V. Wade Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstate-police-launch-criminal-investigation-into-suspected-arson-of-historic-church-after-roe-v-wade-ruling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529671&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>West Virginia State Police have launched a criminal investigation into a suspected arson attack over the weekend that allegedly targeted a historic church.<\/p>\n<p>The Beaver Volunteer Fire Department was alerted to the fire at St. Colman Catholic Church on Sunday in Shady Spring, West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon arrival we found the structure was already burned to the ground and smoldering. At this time the fire is considered suspicious in nature and is being investigated as arson,\u201d the fire department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beaver102\/\">said<\/a> in a statement. \u201cWe were assisted by Ghent VFD, Coal City VFD, Ghent EMS, National Park Service and the WV State Police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suspected arson attack comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled late last week to overturn the unconstitutional <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> decision which led the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to warn of domestic terrorist attacks in response to the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaith-based organizations across the United States continue to report numerous criminal incidents against religious institutions connected to abortion rights,\u201d a DHS intelligence report <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22068133\/dhs-memo.pdf\">stated<\/a>. \u201cWe are aware of at least 11 incidents of vandalism threatening violence targeting religious facilities perceived as being opposed to abortion, and one threat to \u2018bomb\u2019 and \u2018burn\u2019 a church in New York. These incidents of vandalism against faith-based organizations could indicate future targets of DVE attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report warned that the topic targets for domestic terrorism were federal and state officials, including judges.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected church arson in West Virginia follows another suspected arson case that happened over the weekend in Colorado, where a pregnancy center in Longmont was vandalized and set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire happened at around 3:00 a.m. at the Life Choices Pregnancy Center,\u201d local media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koaa.com\/news\/covering-colorado\/longmont-pregnancy-center-set-on-fire\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe graffiti contained threatening messages including the words, \u2018If abortions aren\u2019t safe neither are you.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support we have received since this morning and pray for healing and peace for all,\u201d Kathy Roberts, Executive Director of the Life Choices Pregnancy Center, said in a statement. \u201cAlthough this is unsettling, we have an incredible, caring staff and volunteers that are committed to coming back and serving our community and surrounding areas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia State Police have launched a criminal investigation into a suspected arson attack over the weekend that allegedly targeted a historic church. The Beaver Volunteer Fire Department was alerted to the fire at St. Colman Catholic Church on Sunday in Shady Spring, West Virginia. \u201cUpon arrival we found the structure was already burned to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1529794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1529794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}