Ten years after Charleston church massacre, faith leaders lament that the country hasn’t changed
Charleston, South Carolina, US AP People of faith gathered again at Mother Emanuel AME on Tuesday just like they did 10 years ago, searching for God’s truth and His love in the church fellowship hall. On that horrible night in 2015, nine Black church members were gunned down by a white man who hated them just […]
Biden calls out “poison” of white supremacy in address at Mother Emanuel in South Carolina
United States RNS President Joe Biden, taking his 2024 reelection campaign to South Carolina, denounced the white supremacy that he said led to deadly violence at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church almost nine years ago. “The Word of God was pierced by bullets and hate and rage, propelled by not just gunpowder, but by […]
US politics: Can South Carolina’s Haley and Scott woo the Republican Party’s white evangelical base away from Trump?
TIFFANY STANLEY, of Associated Press, reports that both candidates of colour must appeal to their party’s white evangelical base to have a prayer against former President Donald Trump….
US to pay $US88 million to families, victims of Charleston church massacre
Washington DC, US AP Families of nine victims killed in a racist attack at a Black South Carolina church have reached a settlement with the Justice Department over a faulty background check that allowed Dylann Roof to purchase the gun he used in the 2015 massacre. The Justice Department will pay $US88 million, which includes $US63 million for the families of the […]
US court upholds death sentence for church shooter Dylann Roof
Richmond, Virginia, US AP A US federal appeals court Wednesday upheld Dylann Roof’s conviction and death sentence for the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation, saying the legal record cannot even capture the “full horror” of what he did. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 4th US Circuit […]
Essay: Overturn Dylann Roof’s death sentence – for me, not for him
In an article first published on Religion News Service, Rev SHARON RISHER, whose mother and two cousins were among the nine people murdered by Dylann Roof in a mass shooting at a Charleston church in 2015, writes about why she doesn’t want him to be executed…