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Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post

Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 08 January 2024

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.

CISA: Personal Security Considerations Action Guide

The Personal Security Considerations Action Guide: Critical Infrastructure Workers helps critical infrastructure workers assess their security posture and provide options to consider whether they are on or off the job. This action guide provides actionable recommendations and resources intended to prevent and mitigate threats to a critical infrastructure worker’s personal safety. For questions regarding this action guide, please email central@cisa.gov.

PDF: Personal Security Considerations Action Guide: Critical Infrastructure Workers

Analyst Comments:

This new 7-page action guide is a great resource for Faith-Based Organization personnel and members. The guide also provides links to many other useful cyber and physical security resources.

Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series: Mark Herrera on leadership, resilience and partnership

The Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series is Gate 15’s newest podcast. Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour, hosts short interviews with venue safety and security experts from the International Association of Venue Managers’ (IAVM) Venue Safety and Security Committee (VSSC) and other special guests from the IAVM community.

In this inaugural episode of Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series, Andy Jabbour talks with Mark Herrera, Director of Education for the International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM). In the discussion they address:

Information on other Gate 15 blogs can be found at Podcasts (gate15.global).

More Faith-Based Stories

First-Ever Religious Violence Database Launches, Tracking Reports of Violent Persecution by Date, Country, Religion and Perpetrator and Christian group launches first-ever religious violence database tracking global persecution

CA: Second East Bay Hindu Temple hit by vandalism in two weeks and Hindu American Foundation Calls for Heightened Temple Security Amid Threats

Several cars broken into, another stolen, at Baltimore’s Mt. Sinai Baptist Church and Church Break-Ins and Theft Expose Urban Crime Challenge in Baltimore

Mosque receiving increased Islamophobic threats in Baltimore County

Hate crime investigations underway after multiple Jewish-owned businesses vandalized 

CAIR-Florida, Islamic Community Center of Gainesville Call for Hate Crime Probe of Vandalism Targeting Worship Center

NC: Greensboro police release photos of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church vandalism suspects

PA: Nativity scene vandalized at Overbrook church: “Someone is hurting worse than we are”

MA: Antisemitic postcards sent to Newburyport city councilors, mayor

PDF: Kentucky Jewish Council Antisemitism Report 2023

TN: Woman frustrated after multiple items were stolen during church

NY girls HS basketball game canceled after antisemitic slurs hurled at players

Prominent Black church in New York sued for gender bias by woman who sought to be its senior pastor

Missouri Catholic priest solicited sex during confession: church

Church says priest who married teen has been defrocked

Statement from President Joe Biden on Orthodox Christmas

Exploitation and Enforcement Part II: Improving Enforcement in Countering Uyghur Forced Labor

Chinese Police Arrest Underground Catholic Bishop Loyal to Rome

Nigeria: TB Joshua: Megachurch leader raped and tortured worshippers, BBC finds

Select All-Hazards Stories

Iowa school shooter appeared to be active on Discord and discussed ‘gearing up’ in moments before attack and Iowa school shooter is believed to have posted an ominous TikTok video before killing a 6th grader and wounding 7 people

Port of the Islands shooting: Former Florida hotel employee returns to hotel and kills employee, deputies say

Swatting: After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients and Judge Chutkan ‘Swatted’ as Audio Released of Police Response and Athol Hospital gets bomb threat, suspected ‘swatting’

Groups plan massive march for Gaza cease-fire in DC next week

IntelBrief: With Presidential Elections Ahead, U.S. Domestic Terrorism a Major Concern

CFR: Far-Right Terrorism in the United States

Havoc in the Heartland: How Secretary Mayorkas’ Failed Leadership Has Impacted the States

Homemade bomb planted on car at Sydney home flying Palestinian flag

Islamic State attempts a comeback

Israeli strike on Lebanon kills senior commander in elite Hezbollah unit

Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel in ‘initial response’ to killing of top leader from allied Hamas

Major Winter Storms to Impact the Lower 48 This Week; Flooding Concerns for Hawaii National Weather Service

NOAA: Get your snow smarts on: 9 forecast tools you can use; Find out if rain, snow, sleet and hail are coming your way

Exceptional winter storm to bring travel woes as it wallops central and eastern US

Why fears over a ‘tripledemic’ are surging

At least 24 sickened in multistate Salmonella outbreak linked to charcuterie      

First US lunar lander in more than 50 years rockets toward moon with commercial deliveries 

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (December 18, 2023 to December 31, 2023)

Thousands of extremists posts removed from social media

No love for romance scammers in 2024

More Security-focused Content

Read a report detailing attacks on Faith-Based organizations following the Dobbs ruling.
Read the October 2023 Threat Level Statement Update
Access all-hazards resources from public and private sector partners, curated by the FB-ISAO team.

The FB-ISAO’s sponsor Gate 15 publishes a free daily newsletter called the SUN. Curated from their open source intelligence collection process, the SUN informs leaders and analysts with the critical news of the day and provides a holistic look at the current global, all-hazards threat environment. Ahead of the daily news cycle, the SUN allows current situational awareness into the topics that will impact your organization. To sign-up for The SUN, please sign up below.

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