Was he targeted for being White or Christian (or both)?
This is actually quite common in South Africa, there are lots of robberies that happen during the services, there have been robbers who show up during the offering and go around the entire congregation and tell everyone to put their wallets, phones and jewlery inside the offering basket and then leave.
My father once was at a small church service and robbers entered before the service started and pointed AK47's at everyone and made them lie down on the ground in the parking lot and hijacked x7 cars.
When I was a protestant I once attended a mega church and because these kinds of robberies had happened to them in the past they literally locked all the gates outside once the service started, security guards outside and during the offering time during the church service they locked the church doors, nobody allowed in or out during the offering and they had hidden plain clothed security mixed inside the congregation watching everyone and everything, once the offering was collected they loaded the cash into an armoured vehcile and took the money off the premises, since upgrading their security they no longer had this problem, you still had to watch your belongings though as thieves would hide in the congregation to steal handbags while people had their eyes closed while praying.
Things like toilets paper rolls were also stolen from the toilets.
At another church I attended as a boy they would often come into the parking lots to steal cars, the one morning they stole a car and my uncle who has an advanced drivers license together with a marks man shooter went after the guys in a high speed chase and shot the tyres out of the moving car and managed to recover the car.
I can tell you many stories of South Africa
