Last Sunday at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., worshippers opened their Bibles and began to pray. It was not part of the planned service. It was their response to an anti-ICE mob that had stormed into their sanctuary, disrupting their constitutional right to worship freely.

This was not an isolated incident. It is part of a disturbing pattern where progressive ideologues have made churches —particularly conservative Christian congregations — acceptable targets for intimidation and violence.

Consider the aftermath of the Dobbs decision. When the Supreme Court correctly returned abortion policy to the states, radical activists responded with a campaign of terror against churches. Catholic Vote’s Church Vandalism Tracker documents a shocking toll: Catholic parishes vandalized, statues beheaded, windows smashed, and threatening messages spray-painted on church walls. (RELATED: Anti-ICE Church Protester Who Dared Bondi To Arrest Him Gets His Wish)

The pattern is clear. Whether the cause is unrestricted illegal immigration, abortion-on-demand, or gender ideology, progressive activists have declared war on religious freedom —and they have chosen houses of worship as their battlefield.

These are not protests. They are acts of intimidation designed to silence dissent and punish those whose faith conflicts with progressive orthodoxy. When a mob forces its way into a church service, when vandals desecrate religious statues........

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