Houses of worship bear arms, install cameras to protect sacred spaces

Houses of worship bear arms, install cameras to protect sacred spaces

Houses of worship bear arms, install cameras to protect sacred spaces

By / Latest News / Monday, 18 March 2019 04:07

A rabbi who packs a gun. A church installing security cameras. A police car protecting a mosque.

Houses of worship have traditionally been places of refuge where strangers are welcome. But high-profile attacks in recent years on an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, a synagogue in Pittsburgh and now mosques in New Zealand have made many worshippers and their prayer leaders rethink how protected sanctuaries really are.

 

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