Posted on 03/19/2025 3:59:36 PM PDT by Morgana
Indianapolis Police are asking for the community’s help to identify suspects after a church in the Haughville neighborhood was struck by vandals on Tuesday night. The building of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, as well as the church’s bus, were spray-painted with obscene messages.
The words “**** the lord” were spray-painted onto a brick wall of the church’s building, and “die, die, die” was painted on the concrete. On another wall are painted the words “the devil rules.”
On the church’s bus, “666” is scrawled several times, along with the same messages that appear on the building.
Ronald Covington, pastor of the church, told FOX59 that while graffiti has recently been a problem in the area, “when it goes to the church, it’s on a different level.”
“It’s a level of disrespect. It’s dishonoring God and his house,” said Covington. “This is the Lord’s house. We’re tired of it, we’re saddened by it—this evil. Acts of evil, that’s basically what it is.”
Covington said that he and other local pastors have had meetings to discuss Haughville’s graffiti problem, saying, “We’ve just been meeting with some of the pastors in the city. We just talked about this—this graffiti in our community.”
Nevertheless, Covington expressed faith in his community. And churchgoers and other local residents have already begun to power wash the graffiti off the church’s property.
“You know, Haughville strong. It talks about community and how we support each other,” he said. “I think it’s just a positive thing when we have even pastors leave their churches and come over here to support us over here.”
“That says a lot for a our faith community. It says a lot for our community as a whole,” Covington said. “We’ve had a lot of people out here washing the buildings, doing all this stuff. It’s community members, so it says a lot about our community, that we stand together.”
A police investigation into the vandalism is ongoing.
“If you see something, say something,” Covington said. “Keep your eyes open, and prayerfully, we can come together and find a solution to not only our church, but our whole community. That’s our hope.”
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department’s Southwest District Detectives Office at (317) 327-6421. Tips can also be submitted anonymously to Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at (317) 262-8477.
ChurchLeaders has reached out to Friendship Missionary Baptist Church for comment and will update this article in the event of a response.
Good thing it was not a Mosque
I wonder if we will see more of this down the road, things are going to get ugly for the next few years as the left’s frustration grows, and Christian haters are part of that left.
sounds like a bunch of kids who never knew what a spanking was.
The liberals went after a black church.
My, my.
those things are going to increase in intensity and even danger in the end times- this is satan’s world for now-
What about a hidden camera system? Could show a lot. Also one one the area where you might see a car’s license plate.
Why would people do something like this?
The church pastor has stated that the episode was caught on security cameras.
“There is more evil around us here than I have ever encountered before!”,
exclaims Peter Cushing’s Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959).
The article isn’t evidence of anything, but it sure presents the elements so typical of a hoax. Church leaders had just been meeting about the graffiti problem... The vandalism brought the community together... The trite messages used... Sorry to be so cynical.
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