HomeNewsStaten Island parish firebombed

Staten Island parish firebombed

Published on

Please Help Anglican.Ink with a donation.

An Anglo-Catholic Staten Island parish was firebombed on Sunday afternoon, the NYPD reports. Sometime after 2:00 in the afternoon a Molotov cocktail was tossed through an open window at St Paul’s Memorial Episcopal Church on St Paul’s Avenue in the outer borough. Police and firefighters were on the scene at 2:20 and extinguished the blaze. No one was injured in the incident and the damage to the building, built in 1866 of rough-faced,  blocks of Staten Island trap rock with brownstone trim and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980,  was minor, a police spokeswoman told the Staten Island Advance. According to police, the fire-bombing is being investigated as a hate crime by the NYPD’s Hate Crimes units. No arrests have yet been made in the incident and the investigation is on-going.

Latest articles

The General Theological Seminary welcomes 17 MDiv students

The General Theological Seminary (GTS) has welcomed 17 new Master of Divinity (MDiv) students...

Bishop’s Disciplinary Tribunal in case of the Rev Canon Andrew Cornes

A Bishop’s Disciplinary Tribunal for the Diocese of London has upheld a complaint brought...

Cleansing the temple: Discipline imposed on CoE priest for failure to act

The censure of a Church of England cleric over the John Smyth abuse scandal...

Beach’s 2020 probe cleared Dobbs of claims now driving defamation suit

A confidential November 12, 2020 report and set of Godly Judgments issued by the...

Mark Short speaks to Anglicans on hope in an era of distrust: ‘the folly of enshrining one culture as normative’

An excerpt from the Presidential Address by Bishop Mark Short to the 19th Anglican...

More like this

The General Theological Seminary welcomes 17 MDiv students

The General Theological Seminary (GTS) has welcomed 17 new Master of Divinity (MDiv) students...

Bishop’s Disciplinary Tribunal in case of the Rev Canon Andrew Cornes

A Bishop’s Disciplinary Tribunal for the Diocese of London has upheld a complaint brought...

Cleansing the temple: Discipline imposed on CoE priest for failure to act

The censure of a Church of England cleric over the John Smyth abuse scandal...