Sight-Seeing: Practicing prophetic grief
Rev OTIS MOSS III, author, academic and senior pastor of United Church of Christ in Chicago, says that when we grieve pathetically, we may come to imitate our oppressors…
US to pay $US88 million to families, victims of Charleston church massacre
Washington DC, USAP 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 nine […]
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 […]
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…
Postcards: Five years after shooting, Mother Emanuel uneasily adapts as pilgrimage site
In an article first published on Religion News Service, MATTHEW J CRESSLER, assistant professor of religious studies at the College of Charleston, reflects on how congregants of the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church have coped in the wake of the 2015 mass shooting in which nine church members were killed…
Five years after church massacre, Charleston officials to remove statue of slavery advocate
Updated: 5.15pm AESTColumbia, South CarolinaAP Despite a South Carolina law protecting monuments, officials in the historic city of Charleston announced Wednesday that they plan to remove a statue of slavery advocate John C Calhoun from a downtown square. Mayor John Tecklenburg announced he will send a resolution to the City Council to remove the statue […]
THE INTERVIEW: JENNIFER PINCKNEY, WIDOW OF MURDERED MOTHER EMANUEL PASTOR
MAINA MWAURA, of Religion News Service, speaks with Jennifer Pinckney, the widow of Mother Emanuel Pastor Clementa Pinckney, four years after the death of her husband in the 2015 mass shooting at his church, Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina…
Man convicted over Charleston church killings sentenced to death in US
A man who killed nine black people attending a Bible study in an historic church in the US city of Charleston has been sentenced to death. Dylann Storm Roof, 22, was last month convicted of 33 federal offences, relating to the June, 2015, shootings at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Those killed were aged between […]
White supremacist found guilty on all counts in Charleston church massacre in US
RNS/Reuters A federal jury on Thursday found avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof guilty on all counts for gunning down nine black parishioners at a historic church in Charleston last year. Twelve jurors deliberated for a little under two hours after six days of chilling testimony about the bloodshed during a Bible study at Emanuel African […]