Another church
burned in 'Bama

Another Alabama church burned last night in a fire characterized by authorities as "suspicious."

The Faith Church of the Nazarene in Blount County in Northwest Alabama was destroyed by a fire that began in the rear of the buildings.

Ragan Ingram, spokesman for the Alabama Fire Marshal's office, called the blaze suspicious.

No one was injured in the fire, but the roof of the sanctuary and main building collapsed.

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Earlier this month, three Birmingham college students were arrested in connection with a string of nine rural Alabama church fires. The trio, linked to Satanism as a possible motive for the arson, faces state and federal charges.

Benjamin Moseley, Russell Debusk, Matthew Lee Cloyd

Those booked were: Benjamin Moseley and Russell DeBusk, 19, theater students at Birmingham-Southern College, and Matthew Cloyd, 20, who lived in the same dorm as DeBusk.

Cloyd wrote to Moseley last summer, as the two planned a road trip: "Let us defy the very morals of society instilled upon us by our parents, our relatives and of course Jesus."

About the same time, DeBusk and Moseley started dabbling in the occult, according to a report by Religion News Service. They told friends they were Satanists on a hunt for knowledge.

DeBusk and Moseley, according to friends, claimed to be Satanists, which, they explained, was "not about worshipping the devil, but about the pursuit of knowledge."

Jeremy Burgess, DeBusk's roommate, said he discussed religion with him.

"He told me I was one of the more intelligent Christians he's talked to," Burgess said. "Coming from a Satanist, I didn't know quite how to interpret that."

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