<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Protect His House</title><link>https://protecthishouse.com</link><description>Field reports for church safety teams.</description><item><title>&quot;I have a confidential request&quot;: the fake pastor scam is still working</title><link>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/pastor-impersonation-gift-card-scam/</link><guid>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/pastor-impersonation-gift-card-scam/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Scammers are impersonating pastors, rectors and bishops in emails and texts to get church directories and talk members into buying gift cards. Warnings came from congregations and dioceses throughout 2026.</description></item><item><title>A registered sex offender worked at a church school for years. Now its leaders face charges.</title><link>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/pawleys-island-child-safety/</link><guid>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/pawleys-island-child-safety/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Police say a convicted sex offender worked as a custodian at Pawleys Island Community Church and its school for years while leaders kept his record from staff and parents. The former pastor, his wife and the academy director were charged.</description></item><item><title>A landmark church from the 1850s, a lighter, and 18 minutes</title><link>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/bushwick-church-arson/</link><guid>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/bushwick-church-arson/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The historic South Bushwick Reformed Church was destroyed by a three-alarm fire on June 19. Federal prosecutors say a man failed to get inside, bought a lighter at a nearby store, and came back to set the fire.</description></item><item><title>2 minutes, 57 seconds: how a church&#x27;s emergency plan restarted a heart</title><link>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/chattanooga-three-minutes-aed/</link><guid>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/chattanooga-three-minutes-aed/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>When a man collapsed in cardiac arrest during Wednesday night Bible class at Central Church of Christ, members called 911, started CPR and delivered an AED shock in under three minutes. His pulse came back before police arrived.</description></item><item><title>Easter Sunday, a fall at the door, and an AED bought just 15 months earlier</title><link>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/branford-easter-cpr/</link><guid>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/branford-easter-cpr/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>A 90-year-old member went into cardiac arrest while leaving Easter service at First Congregational Church of Branford. Parishioners started CPR, and nurse-midwives in the congregation used the church&#x27;s new AED to bring him back.</description></item><item><title>A written bomb threat, an 800-yard evacuation, and back to normal by noon</title><link>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/hudson-written-bomb-threat/</link><guid>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/hudson-written-bomb-threat/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Faith Community Church received a written bomb threat on a Tuesday morning. Authorities evacuated everything within 800 yards, searched the building, and had a suspect in custody within about 2.5 hours. No device was found.</description></item><item><title>A security volunteer spotted the gun before it cleared his pocket</title><link>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/houston-security-team-stops-armed-man/</link><guid>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/houston-security-team-stops-armed-man/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>At Eden Church in downtown Houston, a security team member recognized a man who had been asked to leave weeks earlier, watched him closely, and tackled him as he reached for a loaded revolver.</description></item><item><title>A 911 call reached police minutes before a man with explosives sat down in the back row</title><link>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/michigan-city-911-call-explosives/</link><guid>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/michigan-city-911-call-explosives/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>A woman with a protection order called 911 to warn that a man was heading to Full Gospel Church with explosives and a gun. Officers found him in the back of the sanctuary. Police say he was carrying multiple explosive devices.</description></item><item><title>&quot;Very close to a mass shooting&quot;: two officers in the pews made the difference</title><link>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/ellensburg-orthodox-parishioners-intervene/</link><guid>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/ellensburg-orthodox-parishioners-intervene/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>About 50 people were worshipping at Prophet Elijah Orthodox Church when an armed couple arrived. An off-duty officer and a retired officer in the congregation stepped in. Police later found a fully automatic rifle in the couple&#x27;s SUV.</description></item><item><title>Shots through the sanctuary wall during a funeral prayer</title><link>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/kansas-city-funeral-drive-by/</link><guid>https://protecthishouse.com/posts/kansas-city-funeral-drive-by/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>During a funeral for a homicide victim, gunfire from the street hit the front of New Beginning Apostolic Church. Four people were hurt, including an off-duty officer. A suspect was charged in April.</description></item></channel></rss>