Pastor Lucas Miles, senior director of Turning Point USA Faith and author of “Pagan Threat: Confronting America’s Godless Uprising,” told Newsmax that Sunday’s deadly attack at a Mormon church in Michigan underscores the need for houses of worship to bolster security, warning that Christians worldwide are facing rising persecution.
“First off, the right to worship freely is one of the most sacred of our rights, and it’s God-given,” Miles told Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda” after reports that a gunman opened fire and set fire to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, killing one and injuring at least nine others.
“Anytime you see an attack, regardless of what faith it is, on a house of worship, that is a tragic thing. And so our hearts and prayers are with them,” he said.
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