Alabama

Spring Valley Baptist Church reopens - 09/19/2006
Three arested in church fires- 03/09/2006
Baptist Churches Burning in Rural Alabama - 02/08/2006

Baptist Churches Burning in Rural Alabama - 02/08/2006

Four more Baptist churches have been set on fire across the state of Alabama, less than a week after a string of five blazes that were ruled arson.

"I'm not prepared to talk about the evidence yet ... but common sense tells you there is a clear indication these fires are going to be linked," FBI acting assistant director Chip Burrus said in an interview with The Associated Press in Washington, D.C.

More than 50 agents have been assigned to investigate the arsons, and their focus is the No. 1 priority nationally, according to Rich Marianos, a spokesman for the federal Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agency.

The latest fires took place at Baptist on rural roads, about 10 to 20 miles apart. The fires are in a cluster of three counties, about 60 miles from the Bibb County area where the five other churches were burned last week.

The nine churches that have burned included both white and black congregations.

"Four more Baptist churches burn in rural Alabama." Lewiston Tribune 8 Feb 2006: 3A.

Three arrested in church fires - 03/09/2006

Benjamin Moseley and Russell DeBusk, students from Birmingham-Southern College, and Matthew Lee Cloyd, student from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, were arrested Wednesday for the the string of nine church fires that were intentionally set in Alabama last month. Federal agents said suspects claimed that the first few blazes were set as "a joke" and the others were started to throw investigators off the track.

Five churches were destroyed and four damaged during their pranks of arson. In many cases, the fire was set in the sanctuary near the altar.

Gov. Bob Riley said the fires did not appear to be "any type of conspiracy against organized religion" or the Baptist faith. With the arrests, he said, "the faith-based community can rest a little easier."

Reeves, Jay. "Three college students arrested in church fires." Lewiston Tribune 9 Mar 2006: 7A.

Spring Valley Baptist Church reopens - 09/19/2006

Spring Valley Baptist Church reopened its doors after recovering from the arson fire in February. More than 250 members and visitors crowded into the rural church for a rededication and homecoming dinner. Three people have been charged in nine church fires.

"Across the USA - Alabama." USA TODAY 19 Sep 2006: 7A.

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About the Author

Kathy L. McFarland is a Becker Bible Studies Teacher and Author of Guided Bible Studies for Hungry Christians. She is a Religious Studies student of Liberty University, Hebrew language student attending Israeli taught Ulpan and a Homeschool parent teaching the things of God. She is also well-known as a child advocate of innocent children tortured and suffering from the abuse of sexual perversion, out-of-control violence, and pathetic neglect by a carnal world gone mad.

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