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A woman reads the program for a memorial service honoring those killed in last year's shooting at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., Friday, June 17, 2016. Friday marks one year since nine people were shot and killed while studying their Bibles in a basement room at the historic church. |
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The Latest on observances for the anniversary of the Charleston, South Carolina church shootings in which nine people were shot and killed during a Bible study (all times local): 12:20 p.m. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says the shootings at Emanuel AME Church changed the state. |
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Members of Mother Emanuel AME church walk together to a memorial service on the anniversary of the shooting in which nine black parishioners were killed during bible study at the historic church in Charleston, S.C., Friday, June 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) The Associated Press.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on observances for the anniversary of the Charleston, South Carolina church shootings in which nine people were shot and killed during a Bible study (all times local): 12:20 p.m. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says the shootings at Emanuel AME Church changed the state. |
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Omar Mateen was the guy at the bar, drinking alone in the corner. Those who describe him as a regular at Pulse, a nightclub located in Orlando, Florida, say that he was prone to making a scene. Ty Smith, who saw him there frequently, told the Orlando Sentinel , that “he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent. |
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By BRUCE SMITH Associated Press. CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Amid singing and prayer, a communitywide memorial service remembering the victims of the Charleston church shootings got underway Friday in a sports arena a few blocks from Emanuel AME Church. The service marked the one-year anniversary of the.... |
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By BRUCE SMITH Associated Press. CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Amid singing and prayer, a communitywide memorial service remembering the victims of the Charleston church shootings got underway Friday in a sports arena a few blocks from Emanuel AME Church. The service marked the one-year anniversary of the.... |
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Charleston shooting survivor Jennifer Pinckney is speaking exclusively with TODAY’s Craig Melvin, one year after gunman Dylann Roof entered the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina and killed nine people. Her late husband, Rev. Clementa Pickney, was the pastor at the church, and was.... |
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By BRUCE SMITH Associated Press. CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Amid singing and prayer, a communitywide memorial service remembering the victims of the Charleston church shootings got underway Friday in a sports arena a few blocks from Emanuel AME Church. The service marked the one-year anniversary of the.... |
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A woman reads the program for a memorial service honoring those killed in last year's shooting at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., Friday, June 17, 2016. Friday marks one year since nine people were shot and killed while studying their Bibles in a basement room at the historic church. |
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By BRUCE SMITH Associated Press. CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Amid singing and prayer, a communitywide memorial service remembering the victims of the Charleston church shootings got underway Friday in a sports arena a few blocks from Emanuel AME Church. The service marked the one-year anniversary of the.... |
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By BRUCE SMITH Associated Press. CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Amid singing and prayer, a communitywide memorial service remembering the victims of the Charleston church shootings got underway Friday in a sports arena a few blocks from Emanuel AME Church. The service marked the one-year anniversary of the.... |
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Many mourners have traveled to the historical black church in the past year, commonly known as Mother Emanuel, to pray and pay tribute to those killed on that dreadful day. The victims were: Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Tywanza Sanders, Cynthia Hurd, Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Myra Thompson, Ethel Lance, Rev. |
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By BRUCE SMITH Associated Press. CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Amid singing and prayer, a communitywide memorial service remembering the victims of the Charleston church shootings got underway Friday in a sports arena a few blocks from Emanuel AME Church. The service marked the one-year anniversary of the.... |
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Amid singing and prayer, a communitywide memorial service remembering the victims of the Charleston church shootings got underway Friday in a sports arena a few blocks from Emanuel AME Church. The service marked the one-year anniversary of the shootings that claimed the lives.... |
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Lungi Magwaza, well-known Imbokodo FM presenter and church pastor in Durban, was caught on tape chasing women of out of her church because they were lesbian, the
reported. In a recorded sound clip posted on the website, the pastor told the women they deserved to burn in hell and that they were a disgrace before God. |
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Members of Mother Emanuel AME church walk together to a memorial service on the anniversary of the shooting in which nine black parishioners were killed during bible study at the historic church in Charleston, S.C., Friday, June 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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Nine churchgoers, all African-American, were shot by a young, white man who entered their church, joined their Bible study for an hour and then opened fire. The shooter blamed his victims because of their skin color. After the tragedy, the church could have closed its doors or cut back on public events. |
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CHARLESTON, S.C. The city of Charleston came together on Friday for a memorial and other events to mark the first anniversary of the killings of nine members of a Bible study group in what prosecutors described as a racially motivated hate crime. The events were made even more poignant coming less.... |
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Welcome to the debut of EXIT INTERVIEW, a periodic series in which the Observer talks about Charlotte with noted local people who are leaving town for somewhere else. On Sunday, the Rev. Nancy Kraft will deliver her last sermon as pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Charlotte’s Plaza Midwood.... |
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In this high-traffic smuggling corridor, watch a "coyote" moving undocumented workers through the woods, listen to a Guatemalan teenager recount her long journey to South Texas, ride along with a busy team of U.S. Border Patrol agents, roll through a Mexican border town wracked by cartel violence.... |
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A year later, the grief still feels raw. Nine churchgoers, all African-American, were shot by a young, white man who entered their church, joined their Bible study for an hour and then opened fire. The shooter blamed his victims because of their skin color. After the tragedy, the church could have closed its doors or cut back on public events. |
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A woman reads the program for a memorial service honoring those killed in last year’s shooting at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., Friday, June 17, 2016. Friday marks one year since nine people were shot and killed ...
By Bruce Smith - Associated Press - Friday, June 17, 2016.
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By Harriet McLeod. CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - The city of Charleston came together on Friday for a memorial and other events to mark the first anniversary of the killings of nine members of a Bible study group in what prosecutors described as a racially motivated hate crime. |
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Nine churchgoers, all African-American, were shot by a young, white man who entered their church, joined their Bible study for an hour and then opened fire. The shooter blamed his victims because of their skin color. After the tragedy, the church could have closed its doors or cut back on public events. |
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