‘They’ve burned our churches’: Story surrounding 2019 arson fires unfolds in multi-media show

In 2019, three Black Baptist churches in St. Landry Parish — St. Mary Missionary Baptist Church, Greater Union Baptist Church and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — were destroyed by an arsonist.

“They’ve burned our churches” is the first line of “Sacred Spaces?”, making its Louisiana debut at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Heymann Performing Arts Center in Lafayette.

A story of reconciliation and redemption in the aftermath of the fires will unfold through spoken word, new music, stark pictures and choreography in “Sacred Spaces?”…

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