Tornado aftermath: Prayers of thanks after historic US city of Selma ravaged
KIM CHANDLER, of Associated Press, reports on how churches have stepped up in the aftermath of devastation…
Alabama church of ‘Bloody Sunday’ on endangered places list
United StatesAP Like religious congregants all over, the people of historic Brown Chapel AME Church turned off the lights and locked the doors at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic because it wasn’t safe to gather for worship with a deadly virus circulating. For a time, the landmark church that launched a national voting rights movement in […]
“This is our Selma moment”: US clergy leaders announce on eve of 27 mile voting rights march to Austin
RNS Fifty-six years ago, Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, led thousands of clergy and laypeople on a 54 mile (87 kilometre) voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, the state capital of Alabama. On Wednesday, Rev William J Barber II will lead a similar contingent on a four-day, 27 mile (43 kilometre) march from Georgetown […]
Body of civil rights icon John Lewis crosses Selma bridge
Selma, AlabamaAP The late US Representative John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the final time Sunday as remembrances continue for the civil rights icon. The bridge became a landmark in the fight for racial justice when Lewis and other civil rights marchers were beaten there 55 years ago on “Bloody Sunday”, a key […]