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Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post

Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 8 April 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.

US intel warns of potential terrorist threat at gatherings after Moscow attack

From the ABC News report:

“Law enforcement officials expressed concern that radicals in the U.S. might respond to ISIS calls for similar attacks in the wake of last month’s deadly terrorist attack at a concert hall in Moscow.

The U.S. intelligence bulletin warns that ISIS operatives worldwide and so-called “lone wolves” might respond to recent statements from the terrorist group touting the attack in Russia and encouraging more attacks on public venues — even if the individuals are not members of ISIS.”

Analyst Comments:

Faith-Based Organizations should consider the threat of a lone offender being influenced to copy the Moscow Crocus City Hall attack that killed 144 people.  

FB-ISAO’s Daily Awareness Posts on  27 March 2024 and  25 March 2024 provide a variety of resources to protect soft targets and crowded places from lone offenders and other threats.

Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series: “Don’t’ get complacent.” Christopher Post, on communications and preparedness.

Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series is our newest podcast as 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 episode of Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series, Andy Jabbour talks with Christopher Post, Assistant General Manager, Amarillo Civic Center Complex.

  • Christopher’s background.
  • Clear, consistent, collaborative, communications.
  • Throwing EAP’s in the trash a few times.
  • The 10-80-10 rule.
  • The value of full-scale exercises.
  • Name dropping some champions from the community. 
  • More!

“It has to be muscle memory; it has to be automatic.”

 – CHRISTOPHER POST

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

 

More Faith-Based Stories

Cincinnati police searching for person suspected of robbing woman at Oakley church

Vandal with a hammer smashes Brooklyn Mormon church window

MS: Ellisville man jailed for breaking into church in Richton

PA: Bomb threat prompts search at Berks County church, but nothing found

Communion wafers found discarded in parking lot of West Virginia church after Easter Mass

Pro-Nazi Graffiti Discovered in Florida Residential Area

MA: Longwood Green Line stop defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti, Brookline says

California University Speaker Has Students Recite Genocidal Slogan at Required Presentation

Pro-Hamas Harvard Group Erects Antisemitic ‘Apartheid Wall’

‘Radical’ pro-Palestinian groups increasingly target houses of worship for protests in alarming trend

ADL and SCN Urge Expanded Vigilance & Preparation in the U.S., While Encouraging Jewish Facilities to Remain Open

CA: Suspect arrested in SF scam involving ‘blessing’ items before stealing them, police say

Fugitive Florida pastor arrested in Texas after fleeing sexual battery, molestation charges

North Carolina church fires pastor over admitted sexual misconduct: ‘Lord brought judgment’

Third leader at televangelist Mark Barclay’s church investigated for sex abuse crimes

ISIL members involved in İstanbul church attack among 48 detained: minister

Lebanese Christian official kidnapped, sectarian tensions flare

China denies knowledge of monk it arrested for protesting with Dalai Lama portrait

Police investigate after attack on German synagogue, none injured and Germany: Hundreds march in solidarity after synagogue attack

Marseille Great Synagogue vandalized with ‘Free Gaza’ graffiti during philosopher’s lecture

“An unacceptable sacrilege”: Catholic Archbishop on Desecration of Marian Shrine in Cameroonian Metropolitan See

Vatican Document Casts Gender Change and Fluidity as Threat to Human Dignity and Vatican blasts gender-affirming surgery, surrogacy and gender theory as violations of human dignity

Select All-Hazards Stories

Prosecutions of threats hit a record high in 2023, researchers confirm

US, Japan, Australia and the Philippines to stage military drills in disputed South China Sea

Unfounded reports of shooter at Dolphin Mall spark panic, large police response

Sen. Bernie Sanders’s office in Vermont caught fire. Arson is suspected, but the motive is unclear and Man arrested for setting fire to door of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Burlington office

String of deaths among Indian students in US raises alarm across community

Bomb threats follow Libs of TikTok’s campaign against Planet Fitness and Bomb threats reported at Planet Fitness locations in Northern Va. amid transgender controversy and Police: Planet Fitness locations evacuated after bomb threats

Genocide Joe has to go: Pro-Palestine supporters chant ‘Death to America!’ in Michigan, demand ‘entire’ US system be eliminated

20 Pomona College protesters arrested after storming, occupying president’s office

Anti-Israel Demonstrators Illegally Raise Palestine Flags at California Municipal Building

Germany: Police charge suspect in Halle bomb-making case

CISA’s ‘Cyber Storm’ will help it update National Cyber Incident Response Plan

Key Bridge Updates:

Severe Weather Across the South May Impede Solar Eclipse Viewing National Weather Service

Dirty Dozen: IRS urges taxpayers to not fall prey to untrustworthy tax preparers; “ghost preparers” can disappear with taxpayer cash, information

The potential terrorist use of large language models for chemical and biological terrorism [AI and large language models (LLMs)]

US Environmental Protection Agency hack exposes data of 8.5 million users

Fake Facebook MidJourney AI page promoted malware to 1.2 million people

Beware the Blur: Phishing Scam Drops Byakugan Malware via Fake PDF

New effort to “inoculate” U.S. voters against AI misinformation

‘Social Order Could Collapse’ in AI Era, Two Top Japan Companies Say

More Security-focused Content

Read more about the 2023 Threat Data and what the data tells us about the threat landscape.
Read the March 2024 Threat Level Statement Update
Access all-hazards resources from public and private sector partners, curated by the FB-ISAO team.

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