Many congregations have been reassessing coverage and buying separate "active assailant" policies as shootings at houses of worship, including churches, synagogues and mosques, become more common, religious leaders and insurance representatives said in interviews. "You didn't think
- U.S. religious centers are buying special insurance to protect them from the financial consequences of an armed intruder opening fire in their buildings.
Potential violence has become top-of-mind for many religious organizations, following a spate of shootings in recent years. Other shootings in recent years killed 26 people at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in 2017; nine worshippers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and six people at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in 2012.
"You come in the back and everyone is facing the other way," said Peter Persuitti, who heads the religious practice for insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co."They are so vulnerable."
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