The suspect, masked with a rainbow cloth, first graffitied Refuge Church of Christ with the words "anti-gay cult" at 1:40 a.m., according to police, the New York Post reported.

The vandal scrawled the same message onto the nearby City of Oasis Church of Deliverance, about 100 feet away.

At about 2 a.m., the criminal struck St. Mary's Star of the Sea Church at 19-20 New Haven Ave. He attacked this Catholic church more thoroughly, spray-painting "Welcome Cult Members" and "cult" onto the church walls and sidewalks, and also painting over the faces of two religious statues there, said police.

The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the vandalism as "multiple acts of criminal mischief as a hate crime."

Attacks on Christian churches, and especially Catholic churches, have exploded in recent years in the US, although this has largely been connected with the US Supreme Court's draft Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, since the leak of the decision triggered a spike in such attacks... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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