Violence often targets houses of worship

As he prepared to give his sermon Friday, Omar Atia went over the parallels between his mosque in southwestern Indiana and the two in Christchurch, New Zealand, where dozens of Muslims died in a terrorist attack during communal prayers.

"We're a suburban minority community with kids of immigrants in a Western, English-speaking nation," said Atia, an assistant imam at the Islamic Center of Evansville. "In the Muslims of New Zealand, we see ourselves. Everybody has a fear."

So on Friday, during the same set of congregational prayers