{"id":1943479,"date":"2023-06-03T11:14:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T15:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fire-destroys-historic-us-church-when-smoke-clears-a-sign-of-hope-is-seen\/"},"modified":"2023-06-03T11:15:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T15:15:25","slug":"fire-destroys-historic-us-church-when-smoke-clears-a-sign-of-hope-is-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fire-destroys-historic-us-church-when-smoke-clears-a-sign-of-hope-is-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"US Church Destroyed by Fire, Sign of Hope Remains."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Ffire-destroys-historic-us-church-when-smoke-clears-a-sign-of-hope-is-seen%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=1943479&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--><h2>Historic US Church Destroyed by Fire, But a Sign of Hope Emerges<\/h2>\n<p>A 160-year-old church in Spencer, Massachusetts, was destroyed by fire on Friday. The steeple of First Congregational United Church collapsed into the flames, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/whdh.com\/news\/fire-topples-steeple-destroys-historic-church-in-spencer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHDH-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the flames had charred the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-writer-compares-gina-caranos-firing-to-hollywood-blacklisting-communists-fans-start-petition-to-get-her-rehired\/\" title=\"Liberal Writer Compares Gina Carano\u2019s Firing To Hollywood Blacklisting Communists; Fans Start Petition To Get Her Rehired\">wood black<\/a>, one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fire-destroys-historic-us-church-when-smoke-clears-a-sign-of-hope-is-seen\/\" title=\"US Church Destroyed by Fire, Sign of Hope Remains.\">beam fell<\/a> across a chimney that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/entire-irish-rugby-team-in-international-tournament-refuses-to-take-a-knee\/\" title=\"Entire Irish Rugby Team In International Tournament Refuses To \u2018Take A Knee\u2019\">remained standing<\/a>, forming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/firefighters-grab-cameras-discovering-cross-miraculously-preserved-middle-devastating-church-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a cross<\/a>. \u201cThat gives me hope that we\u2019ll be back,\u201d one woman told WHDH as she looked upon the scene.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UPDATE: Steeple topples over after flames rip through Spencer, Mass. church<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hikba2GD6b\">https:\/\/t.co\/hikba2GD6b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 7News Boston WHDH (@7News) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/7News\/status\/1664738694840958979?\">June 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>A Heartbreaking Loss for the Community<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cFor a lot of folks, it&#8217;s a death in the family. For folks who have gone through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-monthly-deficit-jumps-562-percent-as-bidens-student-debt-bailout-costs-hit\/\" title=\"Federal Monthly Deficit Jumps 562 Percent as Biden\u2019s Student Debt Bailout Costs Hit\">life milestones<\/a> here from baptisms to weddings to funerals, it\u2019s devastating,\u201d Rev. Bruce MacLeod, the church\u2019s pastor, said. \u201cI\u2019m just sad for the parishioners and the generations and generations of people who have put their heart and soul into this church,\u201d Danielle Debo said.<\/p>\n<p>What grew into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-devastating-church-fire-erupts-packed-service-least-41-worshipers-confirmed-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">six-alarm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire destroyed a 160-year-old church in Spencer, Massachusetts. The steeple of First Congregational United Church collapsed into the flames. A beam fell across a chimney that remained standing, forming a cross. &#8220;That gives me hope that we&#8217;ll be back,&#8221; said a woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":1943480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[7895,5643,3655,11481,8689,4723],"class_list":["post-1943479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-destroyed","tag-church","tag-fire","tag-hope","tag-remains","tag-sign"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943479","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}