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For a moment I thought you were going to quote Malachi 3:8-12

“Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me.

“But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’

“In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the LORD Almighty. “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the LORD Almighty.

What the OP is describing is theft from buildings owned either by a denomination or a specific congregation. These metal thefts are driven by mere greed.

If there is a genuine problem of hardship then some congregations may render benevolence, although they probably will not give money out, because people may try and con money out of the church.

I have heard of one church in Glenrothes, Scotland, where they would have men or women come and say they needed money for milk to feed their babies, so this church had on site a range of infant formula which they could offer. If the case was genuine, then they were helping out, but more often I heard was that when offered the range of infant formula, the people trying to con money from the church, admitted what they were trying to do.