Services resume at Charleston church where nine were killed
Members of a historic black church worshipped at their sanctuary Sunday for the first time since a gunman opened fire at a Bible study, killing nine people, and uniformed police officers stood among...
View ArticleCharleston Emanuel church hosts first service since shootings
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Members of a historic black church returned to their sanctuary Sunday, perhaps united like never before, and will hear a sermon of recovery and healing, a message that will no doubt...
View ArticleCharleston shooting: Emanuel AME church reopens for first service
The congregation at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal swayed and sang, prayed and welcomed the world into their sanctuary on Sunday, holding the first worship service since a white gunman was accused...
View ArticleChurch shooting victims identified: Track coach and librarian among those killed
The nation is mourning the deaths of nine people who were murdered while gathered in prayer at a historically black church in Charleston, S.C. A white gunman attended a bible study class at the Emanuel...
View ArticleBlack church in US to hold first service since shootings
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...
View ArticleBlack church in US holds first service since shootings
CHARLESTON: Members of a historic black church returned to their sanctuary Sunday to hear a sermon of recovery and healing, a message that will reverberate across America. Sunday morning marks the...
View ArticleNationwide Prayer Vigils Held for Church Shooting Victims
VOA News Prayer vigils were held in churches across the country Thursday evening to honor the nine people killed in a mass shooting at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina. Hundreds of...
View ArticleChurch shooting suspect 'had plan'
A childhood friend of the man accused of shooting dead nine people inside a black church in South Carolina said he told him a few weeks ago he had "a plan". Joey Meek, who alerted the FBI after...
View ArticleSongs, prayer accompany 1st service at church since shooting
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- The congregation at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal swayed and sang, prayed and welcomed the world into their sanctuary on Sunday, holding the first worship service since a...
View ArticleEmanuel AME church shooting victims
Advertisement Advertise here The victims of a shooting at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina: The Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Cynthia Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lance, The Rev....
View ArticleCharleston, S.C., Shooting: 1st service held since 9 killed at church
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Members of a historic black church worshipped at their sanctuary Sunday for the first time since a gunman opened fire at a Bible study, killing nine people, and uniformed police...
View ArticleSuspect caught in US black church 'hate crime' rampage
Police captured the white suspect Thursday in a gun massacre at one of the oldest black churches in the United States, the latest deadly assault to feed simmering racial tensions. Police detained...
View ArticleMalcolm Graham: Flag removal shows nine victims ‘did not die in vain’
As he drove to Columbia from Charlotte on Thursday afternoon, Malcolm Graham thought about his sister and how bittersweet it was that he was making the trip. His sister, Cynthia Graham Hurd, was one of...
View ArticleA day of determined hope as Charleston mourns 3 more slain at AME church
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A day after President Barack Obama called on Americans to end the deep hold of racial discrimination in the country, the lives of three more victims of the church massacre here were...
View ArticleCharleston Shooting Victims Identified: Killed Include State Senator,...
The shooting took place Wednesday evening, with police saying Dylann Storm Roof entered the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, sat in a prayer meeting for roughly an hour, and then opening fire. Nine...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Church Shootings: TV News Mobilizes to Cover Manhunt, Aftermath
TV news crews and top anchors are descending on Charleston, S.C., today to cover the hunt for a gunman who opened fire in a church Wednesday night,...
View ArticleCharleston shooting: Here are the victims killed in the hate crime
Four victims have been identified as the victims from last night’s mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. Clementa Pinckney, 41 Mr Pinckney was a 1995 graduate of Allen University who is...
View ArticleCharleston Shooting Victims Identified
Several of the victims of the South Carolina church shooting have been identified, including the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a state senator who pastored the Charleston church, and another member of the...
View ArticleInside the lives lost in the Charleston church massacre
CHARLESTON, S.C. — One was a longtime librarian looking forward to retirement. Another had recently graduated from college with a business degree. At least two died in the church that they had attended...
View ArticleFor Charleston shooting victims, Emanuel AME Church was their bond
It was a weekly meeting at the historic black church on Charleston's Calhoun Street. Mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers huddled inside Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on a humid...
View Article3 victims of the church massacre mourned at funerals
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A day after President Obama called on Americans to end the deep hold of racial discrimination in the country, the lives of three more victims of the church massacre were celebrated...
View ArticleCharleston shooting: Nine victims of church massacre in South Carolina...
Nine people have been identified as the victims from the mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. The victims were fatally shot Wednesday night when a terrorism suspect opened fire at Emanuel...
View Article3 South Carolina victims honored in day of funerals
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A day after President Barack Obama called on Americans to end the deep hold of racial discrimination in the country, the lives of three more victims of the church massacre here were...
View ArticleThe Charleston church victims: a poet, a politician, a librarian, women of faith
Six women and three men were killed when a gunman attacked the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church. These are their stories ...
View ArticleSense of security lost, says brother of Charleston shooting victim
Former N.C. State Sen. Malcolm Graham mourns his sister Cynthia Hurd; denounces lack of action after mass shootings...
View ArticleShooting victims included librarian, college grad
The Associated Press 6:46 p.m. EDT June 18, 2015 *** BESTPIX *** WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 18: (L-R) Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) pray with other members of...
View ArticleCharleston library renamed in honour of shooting victim
The Cynthia Graham Hurd St Andrews regional library will honour memory of ‘a librarian’s librarian’ ...
View Article9 shooting victims remembered
The people killed Wednesday when a gunman opened fire in a historic black Charleston, S.C., church included a mother of four, a recent college graduate, the sister of a former North Carolina lawmaker...
View ArticleShooting victims included librarian and recent college grad
Share PhotoReddit✉ In this June 3, 2014 photo, state Sen. Clementa Pinckney speaks at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. Pinckney was killed, Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in a shooting at...
View ArticleSouth Carolina shooting victims united by their devotion to church
n">The victims of Wednesday's mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, were bonded in life by their faith and their close links to the historic African-American church where they worshipped,...
View ArticleCharleston library renamed in honour of church shootings victim
The library in Charleston managed by Cynthia Graham Hurd before she was killed in last week’s Emanuel AME church shootings is being renamed in her honour. ...
View ArticleCharleston shooting victims united by their devotion to church
By Laila Kearney and Katie Reilly (Reuters) - The victims of Wednesday's mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, were bonded in life by their faith and their close links to the historic...
View Article"We lost a sense of security" says brother of church shooting victim
Cynthia Hurd, 54, was killed in Wednesday's night church shooting in South Carolina. Her brother, former North Carolina Senator Malcolm Graham, told "CBS Evening News" anchor Scott Pelley the murder of...
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