A group of evangelical pastors gathered at Seattle's CHOP zone earlier this week to pray and declare that they will defend houses of worship and statues of Jesus after activists called for tearing them down amid Black Lives Matter protests. "Christians across America must stand against this violent religious discrimination and stand to protect sacred ground," the megachurch pastor added. "This threat particularly targets the Catholic Church, and every Christian, despite denomination, and every person of the Good Book, should stand together in unity against this evil." "Next they'll go for the cross," Pastor Kedrick Timbo, of Evangel World Prayer Center, in Louisville, Ky., said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPGibson, who has previously called on public officials to reopen houses of worship amid coronavirus restrictions and called for an end to riots after protests turned violent following George Floyd's police-related death in May, is now calling for pastors to defend houses of worship and "not allow our Christian heritage to be erased in America."

Source: Fox News June 26, 2020 19:07 UTC