US court upholds death sentence for church shooter Dylann Roof
Richmond, Virginia, USAP 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 Court […]
Court tosses lawsuits against store in Texas church killing
Austin, Texas, USAP The Texas Supreme Court says survivors and relatives of those killed in a 2017 mass killing at a church can’t sue a sporting goods chain for selling the gunman the rifle used in the attack. The court on Friday threw out four lawsuits against Academy Sports and Outdoors that alleged a San […]
Texas grand jury: No action against killer of church shooter
Fort Worth, Texas, USAP A grand jury in Texas decided Monday to take no action against a man who fatally shot an armed man who killed two people at a Fort Worth-area church in late December, prosecutors said. Jack Wilson, a firearms instructor who trained a volunteer security team at the West Freeway Church of […]
US: TEXAS CHURCH GRIEVES, PRAYS AND SINGS AFTER DEADLY SHOOTING
BOBBY ROSS Jr, in an article which comes via Religion News Service, writes about the response of a Texas church where two people were fatally shot last weekend…
Updated: Two killed in US church shooting
Fort Worth, Texas, USReligion Unplugged A gunman opened fire during the Lord’s Supper at a Church of Christ in Texas on 29th December, killing two worshipers. Armed members immediately returned fire and killed the shooter at the West Freeway Church of Christ in the Fort Worth suburb of White Settlement. “Today, evil walked boldly among us,” Tarrant […]
Texas church opens new sanctuary 18 months after mass shooting
A Texan church where 26 people were killed when a gunman opened fire 18 months ago has opened the doors of its new sanctuary. The First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs – where on 5th November, 2017, a gunman opened fire, killing 26 people including eight children and an unborn child – held the first service in […]
Christian leaders respond with strong words to Texas shootings
Christians leaders have responded with strong words to Sunday’s shooting at the First Baptist Church in the Texas community of Sutherland Springs in which 26 people were killed and another 20 injured when a gunman opened fire during a worship service. Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines said “[w]e are praying for the families of […]
ESSAY: AFTER SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, PRAY…AND DO SOMETHING
US columnist RICHARD MOUW reflects on the response to Sunday’s shooting at a church in Texas in which 27 people, including the gunman, were killed…
Three days after deadly shooting, Nashville church holds first service
USA Today/RNS The carpet has been pulled up from the floor of Burnette Chapel Church of Christ. Five of its congregants, including the minister, remain hospitalised for gunshot wounds. Those who aren’t hospitalised planned to attend a funeral on Thursday for Melanie Crow, who was killed as she walked out of church Sunday. But on […]