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September 4, 2024

Bell tower at historic church in northern France collapses in arson fire

Interior of historic Church of the Immaculate Conception in the northern French town of Saint-Omer is seen in an undated photo. A man was taken into police custody after a major fire broke out at the church in the morning hours of Sept. 2, 2024. causing its bell tower to collapse.

A man was taken into police custody after a major fire broke out at the historic Church of the Immaculate Conception in the northern French town of Saint-Omer in the morning hours of Sept. 2, causing its bell tower to collapse.

Published in International
April 16, 2021

Portrait of St. Kateri survives devastating church fire on Easter Sunday

The Easter Sunday fire quickly consumed the coummunity church. In the charred remains, a picture of St. Kateri Tekakwitha somehow survived, as well as a Mary statue.

Amidst the rubble left by the fire that consumed St. Theresa Point Catholic Church on Easter Sunday laid a picture of St. Kateri Tekakwitha almost completely intact.

Published in Features
July 13, 2020

Arrest made in Florida Catholic church burning

Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Ocala, Fla., is seen July 13, 2020, after it was set ablaze by a suspect who drove his van through the front doors two days earlier.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A man crashed his van through the doors of Our Lady Queen of Peace Church in Ocala, Florida, early in the morning July 11 and once inside, the church's pastor said, the man set the interior of the church ablaze and drove off.

Published in International
February 13, 2017

Historic Israeli church reopens in Galilee 20 months after arson attack

A clergyman stands inside the Church of Loaves and Fishes following a 2015 fire in Tabgha, Israel. Twenty months after having suffered serious damage from an arson attack, the atrium of the Benedictine church was reopened.

JERUSALEM – Twenty months after having suffered serious damage from an arson attack, the atrium of the Benedictine Church of the Loaves and Fishes was reopened Feb. 12. German Cardinal Rainer Woelki of Cologne, president of the German Association of the Holy Land, celebrating a Mass to mark the event.

Published in International