288 PERCENT INCREASE IN CHURCH ATTACKS: That’s the major finding of a new analysis by the Family Research Council (FRC). There have been 69 attacks on churches in the U.S. during the first three months of 2023, compared to 24 for the same period in 2022.

“If this rate continues, 2023 will have the highest number of incidents of the six years FRC has tracked,” the FRC report notes. The number of church attacks in 2023 already exceeds “the entirety of 2018, in which we identified only 50 incidents, or 2020, in which we identified 54.”