A burning trailer full of Bibles was left outside an evangelical church in Tennessee on Easter morning, according to local police, with the church’s far-right pastor denouncing it as a “100 percent” deliberate act.
Around 6 a.m. on Sunday, police and firefighters responded to a trailer fire at an intersection outside the Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, a city around 20 miles east of Nashville, according to the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office. Firefighters “promptly extinguished” the blaze, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
“The trailer, containing bibles, had been dropped off in the middle of the intersection and then intentionally set on fire,” it said. No further details were immediately disclosed, with the sheriff’s office citing the need to “uphold the integrity of the ongoing investigation.”