As prayer warriors receded from the National Day of Prayer media spotlight on Thursday, the space was quickly filled with angry Roe vs Wade protests threatening to target churches on Sunday, May 8th. News outlets confirm Catholic churches, a historic advocate of the right to life, are being threatened with protests outside their doors with increased vandalism.
CEN confirms there is no known threat these protests will become violent at this time. However, any threats to houses of worship coupled with an escalation of vandalism poses a threat to ALL people of faith to worship freely as a right enumerated in the U.S. Constitution.
In 2019 CEN’s Founder and President Mary Marr Co-chaired the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Faith-based Committee which authored the “Preventing Targeted Violence Against the Faith Community” which was approved and fully funded by Congress, but has not been acted upon. Now, the critical deliverables for both law enforcement and the faith community to have timely actionable threat information sharing; stronger law enforcement relations; training for houses of worship that are consistent nationwide; as well as a forum for incident mitigation is not in place which poses a greater risk of expanded house of worship incidents moving forward.
CEN has been monitoring Christian security for the past twenty years and can confirm that vandalism, burglaries, and bomb threats as well as data breaches are up 80% just in the past year alone. At a time when Jewish synagogues are facing a dramatic rise in Anti-Semitic incidents worldwide with tensions are increasing in the Middle East, Christians are facing the highest rate of persecution of any religions historically in the world.
CEN Founder Mary Marr says: “This is a time to take seriously the escalating threats and risks which have been looming over the Church for three decades. It is why CEN provides ReadyChristian, ReadyChurch and ReadyCity for such a time as this! Every church should be reviewing their security and emergency plans with those responsible for providing a safe worship environment this Sunday. CEN provides resources to assist the Church to be ready but they must use these Biblical blueprints to protect the priesthood of believers for such a time as this!”
CEN provides these three core trainings to prepare the body of Christ for emergencies both large and small. ReadyChurch helps the church assess its own level of readiness and capacity to respond including the ability to share the Hope of Christ when 90% of those in crisis will ask: “Where is God in this?”
CEN Safety Security leadership provides training for church security teams such as how to stand up a church security team; how to understand your unique risks and threats within the ReadyChurch and ReadyCity training. CEN’s partners CPPS training helps church security teams to recognize suspicious behavior and how to mitigate active assailants and many other threats to the safety of the Church today. Bring helpful CPPS ACTIVE ASSAILANT Video training into your home, church or city. Contact:
CEN National Safety Security Officer: dan.graeber@christianemergencynetwork.net
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