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Fires around Orthodox Easter torch 3 churches in 3 cities
cbsnews.com ^ | May 2, 2016, 9:07 AM | CBS/AP

Posted on 05/03/2016 10:19:09 PM PDT by Trumpinator

CBS/AP May 2, 2016, 9:07 AM

Fires around Orthodox Easter torch 3 churches in 3 cities

Investigators in three cities are looking into large fires at Orthodox churches that occurred around the religion's Easter celebrations and caused widespread damage.

The blazes in New York City, as well as Melbourne and Sydney in Australia, caused only minor injuries, according to multiple reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: fires; orthodox; orthodoxchurches
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Islam.

Islam hates all Christians but Orthodox Christians most of all.

Matthew 10:22

You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved..

@cnnbrk NYC Serbian Orthdox Cathedral of Saint Saba just burned down in front of me. #FDNY on the scene. pic.twitter.com/feSd8P9aOG— steven puppo (@STEVE_FLASH) May 1, 2016


1 posted on 05/03/2016 10:19:10 PM PDT by Trumpinator
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To: Trumpinator

The article states that the CHurches that were burned were 2 Yugoslavian and 1 Greek. Balkan Muslims?


2 posted on 05/03/2016 10:20:37 PM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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NYC? there a number of spectacular churches i’ve seen in my 30 years working in Manhattan.

I couldn’t tell you if this one in the pic is from NYC or not but this is a shame and probably a crime.


3 posted on 05/03/2016 10:21:39 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Trumpinator

Such a sad sight...


4 posted on 05/03/2016 10:23:37 PM PDT by nutmeg (..and the Oscar goes to: Michelle Fields!)
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To: dp0622

That picture is the Manhattan church.


5 posted on 05/03/2016 10:23:57 PM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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To: dp0622

There is a USA flag on the church and NYC in the window to the right side. So it looks like it is in New York. My guess anyway.


6 posted on 05/03/2016 10:25:11 PM PDT by jimpick
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Manhattan.

The cathedral, formerly known as Trinity Chapel, was designed in 1850 by architect Richard M. Upjohn in the Gothic Revival style.

The chapel was an Episcopal Church for several decades until 1915, when the area became more commercial and parishioners decided to relocate.

The Serbian Orthodox Church purchased the structure from the Episcopal Diocese in New York in 1943.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Firefighters-Battle-Massive-Fire-in-Manhattan-Church-377750261.html


7 posted on 05/03/2016 10:26:46 PM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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I didn’t want to say it looked really familiar just because I’m from NYC, but it did/does!

dammit.


8 posted on 05/03/2016 10:27:31 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

But then, there are certainly more than on that look like that.

What a horror.


9 posted on 05/03/2016 10:28:17 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

20 W 26th St, New York, NY 10010


10 posted on 05/03/2016 10:28:45 PM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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This is the blaze in Sydney, also in a historic old church, presently Eastern Orthodox:


11 posted on 05/03/2016 10:30:13 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: dp0622

That photo is the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava on W. 25th Street in Manhattan.

http://nypost.com/2016/05/02/coordinated-attack-feared-after-massive-cathedral-blaze/


12 posted on 05/03/2016 10:31:59 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary Clinton: Hamas puts its rockets and ammo in schools and hospitals because Gaza is small)
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The NY Post reported a very strange motive, trying to blame the Croatians.

members of the Orthodox community have doubts. They are worried that the blaze — along with church fires in Australia and Russia — were set in retaliation for the religion’s role in blocking the canonization of Croatian Nazi supporter Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac — whose potential sainthood has created a rift between Serbia and Croatia, with the leaders of each lobbying Pope Francis.

Most unlikely!

13 posted on 05/03/2016 10:32:26 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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Actually, there was a fourth Orthodox facility torched, though perhaps not Serbian. So it might not be related to these attacks. The original reports mentioned a fire in Russia, somewhere, coincident with the Orthodox Easter, also.

As to the perpetrators, forgetting the Crimean War (1853-1856), etc., or the Turks confiscating at least 12 facilities in Anatolia, it's always a sure bet to remember:

Islam is at war against everything that is not Islam.

14 posted on 05/03/2016 10:33:18 PM PDT by Prospero (Omnis caro fenum)
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To: Trumpinator

Such a lovely Church..I saw the video..devastating fire indeed.


15 posted on 05/03/2016 10:35:05 PM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless America And Our Troops***DEFEAT HILLARY)
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To: Enchante

It doesn’t look like it faces Broadway, and though I may have walked by it on 25th street one time, I can’t say I remember seeing it.

Broadway has the express bus so i would have definitely seen it on that route if it was facing broadway.

horrible damage. heartbreaking.


16 posted on 05/03/2016 10:36:48 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: BlackVeil

Not the Croats - Muslim Bosnians or Albanians is my guess.


17 posted on 05/03/2016 10:38:35 PM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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To: dp0622

Between avenues.


18 posted on 05/03/2016 10:39:11 PM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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then maybe i walked by it, most likely did at some point, but i dont remember it.

between interviews and bars and just walking you see a lot of streets.

poor parish


19 posted on 05/03/2016 10:43:13 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Trumpinator

Everytime clintons run for an election... another orthodox church burns...


20 posted on 05/03/2016 10:47:24 PM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (10 rounds 10 meters 10 seconds 10 centimetres)
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