{"id":29433,"date":"2024-12-31T13:37:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T13:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/man-admits-he-set-fires-at-majority-black-church-because-of-race-color-religion\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T13:37:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T13:37:35","slug":"man-admits-he-set-fires-at-majority-black-church-because-of-race-color-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/man-admits-he-set-fires-at-majority-black-church-because-of-race-color-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Man admits he set fires at majority Black church because of \u2018race, color, religion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Colantonio prepared to plead guilty to igniting blazes outside Rhode Island\u2019s Shiloh Gospel Temple in February<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/rhode-island\">Rhode Island<\/a> man is prepared to plead guilty on 7 January to lighting several fires just outside a predominantly Black church nearly a year earlier, federal court documents show.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Colantonio, 36, ignited the blazes around Shiloh Gospel Temple\u2019s exterior in North Providence during the early morning of 11 February because of the \u201crace, color, religion, national origin and\/or ethnicity of the congregants there\u201d, according to a plea agreement filed on 20 December. Investigators said most of the worshippers at the Pentecostal church, which has existed for about 35 years, are Black and African American.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/31\/rhode-island-church-fire\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Colantonio prepared to plead guilty to igniting blazes outside Rhode Island\u2019s Shiloh Gospel Temple in February A Rhode Island man is prepared to plead guilty on 7 January to lighting several fires just outside a predominantly Black church nearly a year earlier, federal court documents show. Kevin Colantonio, 36, ignited the blazes around Shiloh &#8230; <a title=\"Man admits he set fires at majority Black church because of \u2018race, color, religion\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/man-admits-he-set-fires-at-majority-black-church-because-of-race-color-religion\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Man admits he set fires at majority Black church because of \u2018race, color, religion\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}