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CBNNews.com -- Three young men in Alabama pleaded guilty to setting fires at nine rural churches.Matthew Cloyd, Benjamin Nathan Moseley and Russell Lee DeBusk entered the guilty pleas to federal arson and conspiracy charges in the string of church fires set on two nights in February.
Prosecutors say a night of drinking last February led to five of the fires.
Court documents show the college students set the other four, trying to throw investigators off course.
All the churches were small, rural and Baptist and included both black and white congregations.
After the fires, CBN News visited the area. We found out that while the attacks were devastating, they brought down racial barriers, rallying congregations that had never met.
"God has actually used this tragic thing for good," said Wardell Harris of Pleasant Sabine Baptist. "The people who burned it down meant it for bad. But God has made something good out of it.
The three wore orange jail jumpsuits and leg chains as they stood before U.S. District Judge David Proctor, who told them they all face minimum seven-year sentences.
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