The Presbyterian Moderator has condemned the latest bomb attacks in the North as a moral outrage.
Dr Trevor Morrow was speaking following two more incidents in Belfast and Co Tyrone on Thursday night.
"The fear and pain that such actions cause amongst ordinary citizens, particularly our Roman Catholic neighbours, is utterly abhorrent," he said.
A Catholic church was the intended target of a nail-bomb attack in east Belfast, according to Sinn Fein's spokesman for the area. Mr Joe O'Donnell said the device that exploded outside a pensioner's home on the Newtownards Road had been thrown at St Matthew's Church but fell short.
An RUC spokesman, however, denied the church was targeted and said the police were still investigating.
No one was injured in the explosion, which happened near the Short Strand area, the largest Catholic area in east Belfast.
Mr O'Donnell blamed loyalist paramilitaries. "This attack is part of an ongoing pogrom being waged against the residents of the Short Strand by the UDA," he said. In Donaghmore, Co Tyrone, a couple whose home was damaged in a petrol-bomb attack said they had feared for the lives of their nine children.
The couple managed to put out a fire started by the device, which was thrown at the front door of their home.
The British army is to resume patrols in Limavady, Co Derry, the RUC announced yesterday, following two sectarian pipebomb attacks on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, police believe a Royal Irish Regiment patrol thwarted a sectarian attack after pipes and gloves were discovered in Dungannon on Thursday night. In a separate operation in Armagh two handguns were recovered and five people were arrested.