1996 April 11 St. Charles Baptist Church in Paincourtville, Louisiana, was burned.
1996 April 13 Rosemary Baptist Church in Barnwell, South Carolina, was burned.
1996 April 26 Effingham Baptist Church in Effingham, South Carolina, was burned.
1996 May 14 Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Tigrett, Tennessee, was burned.
1996 May 23 Mount Tabor Baptist Church in Cerro Gordo, North Carolina, was burned.
1996 May 24 Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Lumberton, North Carolina, was burned.
1996 June 3 Rising Star Baptist Church in Greensboro, Alabama, was burned.
1996 June 7 Matthews Murkland Presbyterian Church sanctuary in Charlotte, North Carolina, was burned and an arrest was made.
1996 June 9 New Light House of Prayer and The Church of the Living God, both of Greenville, Texas, were burned on the same day.
1996 June 12 Evangelist Temple on Marianna, Florida, was burned.
1996 June 13 First Missionary Baptist Church of Enid, Oklahoma, was burned and an arrest was made.
1996 June 17 Hills Chapel Baptist Church, Rocky Point, North Carolina, is burned.
1996 June 17 Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church and Central Grove Missionary Baptist Church, both of Kossuth, Mississippi, were burned on the same day.
1996 June 20 Immanuel Christian Fellowship of Portland, Oregon, was burned.
1996 June 24 New Birth Temple Church of Shreveport, Louisiana, was burned.
21st century
2001-2010
2006 July 11 A cross was burned outside a predominantly black church in Richmond, Virginia[11]
2008 November 5 Macedonia Church of God in Christ, in Springfield, Massachusetts, was burned down and an arrest was made.[12]
2010 December 28 In Crane, Texas, the Faith in Christ Church was vandalized with "racist and threatening graffiti" and then firebombed by a man who was attempting to gain entry into the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas; an arrest was made and the perpetrator was found guilty and sentenced to 37 years in prison.[13]
2011–present
2014 November 24 The Flood Christian Church in Ferguson, Missouri, was burned by arsonists during a series of protests over the police shooting of Michael Brown, Jr. Michael Brown Sr. had been baptized at the church a week before the fire.[14] While other buildings in Ferguson were burned that night, the church was some distance from the protests, and buildings nearby were not damaged; investigators also found signs of forced entry at the church.[15] Members of the congregation believed it had been a targeted attack, motivated by Pastor Carlton Lee's calls for Officer Darren Wilson's arrest and his participation in Al Sharpton's National Action Network.[14][16] Pastor Lee died of an apparent heart attack in 2017, at the age of 34.[17]
2015 June 17 At Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, 10 African Americans, including Clementa C. Pinckney, member of the South Carolina Senate, were shot in a mass attack; nine were killed. White supremacist and neo-Nazi Dylann Roof pled guilty to murder and was sentenced to nine consecutive life sentences without parole.
2015 June 22 At College Hill Seventh Day Adventist, in Knoxville, Tennessee, a small fire was set, resulting in minimal damage to the church structure and destruction of the church van. The act was not classified as a hate crime.[18]
2015 June 23 God's Power Church of Christ in Macon, Georgia, was gutted by a fire which was ruled arson.[19][20]
2015 June 24 At Briar Creek Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, an unknown arsonist started a three-alarm fire, causing more than $250,000 in damages.[21]
2016 November 1 The 111-year-old Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi, was burned and vandalized with the words "Vote Trump" spray-painted onto the building. The arsonist, a black man who was a member of the church, pled guilty in March 2019.[22][23][24]
2019 March 26 St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre, Louisiana. This was the first in a series of three historically black churches over 100 years old, burned within a span of 10 days. Holden Matthews, 21, the son of a St. Landry Parish sheriff's deputy, was charged with the arson attack.[25][26][27] Matthews reportedly was not motivated by race but rather by anti-Christian animus and a desire to promote himself as a black metal musician in the mold of Varg Vikernes, who committed a similar series of church burnings in 1990s Norway.[28] On November 2, 2020, Matthews was sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to pay the churches $2.6 million.[29]
2019 April 2 Greater Union Baptist Church in Opelousas, Louisiana. Holden Matthews was charged with the arson attack.[25][26][27]
2019 April 4 Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Opelousas, Louisiana. Holden Matthews was charged with the arson attack.[25][26][27]
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