Leaning on faith, Louisville mourns victims of mass shooting
Louisville, Kenticky, US AP They went to their churches on the evening after Easter – to cry, to light candles, to ask God why, on this holiday of rebirth, they must mourn so much death. Many in Louisville turned to their faith for impromptu services Monday night, hours after a gunman killed five of his co-workers at […]
Bank worker kills five co-workers in Louisville, Kentucky shooting
Updated: 12:30pm (AEST)United StatesReuters A 23-year-old bank employee armed with a rifle shot dead five colleagues and wounded nine other people at his workplace in Louisville on Monday while livestreaming the attack on social media, police said. The gunman was fatally shot at the scene, Louisville police said. It was unclear whether he was slain […]
In the US, flagship Southern Baptist seminary votes to retain slaveholders’ names on buildings
RNS The flagship seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention decided on Monday to maintain the names of campus buildings named for school founders who had connections to slavery. At the same meeting, the trustees of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary created a multimillion-dollar scholarship fund for African American students. “We’re not going to erase our history […]
In the US, Southern Baptist seminary denies request for reparations
RNS Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, which released a report last year about its connections to slavery, has denied a request from an interracial ministers coalition to financially support a nearby black college as a form of reparations. EmpowerWest, a coalition of black and white pastors in Louisville, Kentucky, where the seminary is located, recently contacted school officials […]