Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 6 July 2023

Faith-Based Security Headlines

These updates are shared to help raise the situational awareness of Faith-Based organizations to best defend against, and mitigate the impacts from all-hazards threats including physical security, cybersecurity, and natural disasters.

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• TX: Blotter: Man allegedly threatens security guard with knife outside Denton Bible Church

• Mom fights off would-be attacker in Nashville church parking lot, police say

• AZ: Man charged with two felony counts in connection with Douglas church fires

• UT: PICS: Locals upset after Bountiful Temple grounds vandalized (abc4.com)

• Texas sets new hate crimes record, DPS data show

• Hate crimes report: Jews most targeted religious group in California

• FACT SHEET: President Biden Reestablishes the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships | The White House You can register for the Thursday, 7/13 at 12:00 pm EST call.

• North Carolina megachurch exits Southern Baptist Convention after expulsions over women pastors

• June Newsletter (soarproject.eu)

• Nigeria: Gunmen kill worshippers returning from church in Taraba (premiumtimesng.com)

• Catholic leaders say ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Christians unfolding in Indian state

• UK: Security fears erupt at Brighton synagogue after teenager charged with terrorism offences – The Jewish Chronicle (thejc.com)

• Israel: Pits with weapons, explosives found in Jenin mosque (israelnationalnews.com)

• US church coalition condemns ongoing military raids in Jenin | ICN (indcatholicnews.com)

• Canada: ‘No room for hate:’ Peterborough police investigating spread of antisemitic flyers | CBC News

• Australia: Doors, windows kicked in as Wesley Uniting Church in Broken Hill vandalised again – ABC News

• Pakistani terror group threatens to attack churches, Christians over Sweden Quran incident

Select All-Hazards Stories

• ‘Insanity’: 4th of July mass shootings leave 20 dead, 126 injured – ABC News (go.com)

• Teen killed, six injured in shooting at Salisbury block party, days after Baltimore mass shooting (baltimoresun.com)

• US judge restricts Biden officials from contact with social media firms

• US Navy intervened to stop Iran seizing two tankers in Gulf of Oman, US defense official says | CNN Politics

• PFAS contaminate nearly half of US tap water. Study flags risk group (usatoday.com)

• Severe Thunderstorms, Heavy Rain, Heat and Air Quality Issues National Weather Service

• Inside the Ring: Former intel officials pan DNI virus origin report – Washington Times

• Mozambique: Mozambican Terror Group Is Strikingly Similar to Nigeria’s Deadly Boko Haram – allAfrica.com

• SANS OUCH! Newsletter | Stop Those Phone Call Scams | July 2023

• A viral left-wing Twitter account may have been fake all along

• Ransomware criminals are dumping kids’ private files online after school hacks

• Microsoft denies data breach, theft of 30 million customer accounts

• BlackCat gang used Google and Bing search ads to push malware-laced dev tool

• TSMC denies LockBit hack as ransomware gang demands $70 million

• Alert: 330,000 FortiGate Firewalls Still Unpatched to CVE-2023-27997 RCE Flaw

• Seven ways to prepare for double extortion ransomware

• Microsoft fixes bug behind Windows LSA protection warnings, again (bleepingcomputer.com)

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