Like the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, they were sacred to those who worshipped inside.
“The rebuild of Notre Dame will be well funded,” journalist Yashar Ali said Tuesday morning on Twitter as he promoted a GoFundMe campaign for the Louisiana churches.
Authorities have accused Holden Matthews, 21, of setting the fires that devastated three churches — St. Mary Baptist Church, Greater Union Baptist Church and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — in St. Landry Parish over 10 days in March and April. “I am donating because historic black churches are no less historic or important that Notre Dame!” one donor, Stuart Feen, said on the fundraising website.
“God is real,” said David Sylvester, a 56-year-old deacon of St. Mary Missionary Baptist Church in Port Barre, when he heard about the spike in donations to the historic family church, where his brother, Kyle, is the pastor. “Your Paris church, it’s 800 or more years old. It’s a national icon,” he said, noting that he had visited Notre Dame last year with his son. “At the same time, here in America we need to focus on coming together.
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