The phrase "attack on a church" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an act of violence or aggression directed towards a church or its congregation.
Example: "The news reported an attack on a church during the Sunday service, causing widespread panic among the worshippers."
Alternatives: "assault on a church" or "strike against a church".
He said that the attack on a church in Samarinda the one where a child died had "violated Islamic laws and was conducted by people who didn't understand the teachings of Islam".
The demonstrators were protesting about a recent attack on a church in southern Egypt.
Last September, the Taliban killed more than eighty people, mostly Christians, in a suicide attack on a church there.
In Indonesia, an attempted bomb attack on a church on Sunday has again left religious minorities deeply shaken.
Five people, including three foreigners, were killed in March in a grenade attack on a church in Islamabad.
The Kenyan town of Garissa was hit with a grenade attack on a church on Saturday night that left two dead.
There was some violence during the referendum campaign - most notably in June, when a grenade attack on a Church-organised "No" rally in the capital Nairobi left six people dead.
The bombing came less than a week after a suicide attack on a Christian church in Peshawar killed 85 people, triggering angry street demonstrations by Christians across Pakistan.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide attack on a historic church in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 78 people on Sunday in one of the deadliest attacks on the Christian minority in Pakistan in years.
But because of the continuing ability of terrorists to strike back with such actions as the recent attack on a Protestant church in Islamabad and the murder of Daniel Pearl, General Musharraf sometimes appears not to be doing enough.
"You can't go to South Carolina and not deal with the Walter Scott case, not deal with gun control and the ramifications of the Charleston Nine," he added, referring to a highly publicised case of an unarmed black man being shot and killed by a police officer, and the attack on a black church last June that left nine people dead.
