STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Another church in Stapleton was fire-bombed with a Molotov cocktail early Thursday morning, police said.

At approximately 2 a.m., officers from the 120th Precinct extinguished a small fire on the awning at First Central Baptist Church on Wright Street, according to an NYPD spokesman.

Authorities found broken glass and the Molotov cocktail on the front lawn, the spokesman said.

There were no injuries.

The incident is being investigated as a possible hate crime, police said.

St. Paul's Memorial Episcopal Church in Stapleton, which is a landmark, was "fire-bombed" with a device representative of a Molotov cocktail sometime after the church closed on Saturday afternoon and when the damage was discovered after the Sunday morning mass, an NYPD spokesman said Tuesday.

The St. Paul's fire is being investigated as a hate crime as well.

Police do not yet know if the two incidents are connected, the spokesman said.