People in prayer again became the target of violence on Sept. 28 when a man rammed a pickup truck into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan, opened fire, and set the church ablaze, killing at least four people and injuring several others , authorities said.
The incident is the latest in a long series of attacks on places of worship across the United States, including the deadly August shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis.
A Voice of America report found that mass shootings at places of worship "have become more frequent" since the mid-2000s – committed, it said, "by perpetrators with a history of racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Christianity and Islamophobia, with ties to white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups."
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