After flames damaged Notre Dame and the world vowed to rebuild, calls rang out to support fundraising for three black churches destroyed by fire in Louisiana.
flames consumed the roof and spire of the 800-year-old Gothic French landmark“The rebuild of Notre Dame will be well funded,” journalist Yashar Ali said on Twitter as he promoted the fundraiser. “In the past month, three historically black churches in Louisiana were destroyed by a racist arsonist. He has been charged with hate crimes, but these churches need your help.
“The church is the people,” he said. “We’re going to stick together regardless of whether the building is there.” “Historically, when slavery was still enforced, the black church was not separate," he said."It’s only after the slaves are freed we saw the development of [the] real black church that’s independent."
And because black churches were so central to the community, attacking them became a way to terrorize the community, she said. The fundraising campaign for the black churches was launched last week by the Seventh District Baptist Assn., a 149-year-old nonprofit group that includes 54 Baptist churches in southwest Louisiana. Any donations, it said, would be split evenly among the three churches that burned to rebuild their sanctuaries and replace pews, sound systems and musical instruments that were destroyed.
The cathedral is an important site for Christians throughout the West, and religious significance aside, it represents the potential and ambition of human creativity, he said.Louisiana parishioners also felt the loss of Notre Dame.
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