CHARLESTON, South Carolina: Members of a historic black church in the US will return to their sanctuary Sunday and worship less than a week after a white gunman killed nine people there, and similar sermons of recovery and healing will reverberate throughout the country. Sunday morning will mark the first worship service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church since Dylann Roof, 21, sat among a Bible study group and opened fire after saying that he targeted them because they were black, authorities said. The church pastor, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who was also a state senator, was among the dead. Events to...
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