Church Arsons In Kentucky

FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THREE DAYS a church was destroyed by a fire early Friday morning. The Mount Zion Church of Christ was fully involved when the Richardsville VFD arrived on the scene shortly after 3 am.

Bowling Green Daily News

Just two days earlier on Wednesday another church of the same denomination, the Mount Pleasant Church of Christ was completely gutted. The two churches are only eight miles apart in the Richardsville area. The Mount Zion church was reportedly the oldest Church of Christ still in use in Kentucky, having been built in 1852.

After the first fire on Wednesday, the pastor of the Mount Pleasant church received an anonymous phone call saying that more churches will be burnt. At 1:00 pm on Friday, the sheriff’s deputies took into custody a 56-yr.-old man for questioning into both fires.

The Bowling Green Daily News has the stories HERE and HERE.

The Daily News also has a slideshow containing some of the best fire scene photos we’ve seen in a while HERE.

Bowling Green Daily News