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Sep 26 2023
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Man arrested at Virginia church with loaded gun and knives after making online threats, police say
A man was arrested after bringing a loaded gun and knives into a Virginia church service Sunday after "vague threats" he posted on Instagram sparked a multi-state investigation, police said. Rui Jiang, 35, of Falls Church, near Arlington, was charged on Sunday with making threats of bodily harm and carrying a dangerous weapon to a place of religious worship, the Prince William Police
NBC News (Online)
Sep 15 2023
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CBS News Miami tours Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church
This year marks the 60th anniversary of a bombing that killed four little Black girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Tania Francois toured the historic site recently. This year marks the 60th anniversary of a bombing that killed four little Black girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Tania Francois toured the historic site recently. This year marks the 60th
CBS News (Online)
Sep 15 2023
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Birmingham Church Bombing 60 Years Later: A Look Back By Those Impacted By It
The corner of 16th Street and North 6th Avenue in Birmingham, Ala., has become a historical site, a museum, and a shrine to children lost in a domestic terror attack six decades ago—something whose impact has become more distant as the generations pass. But Kimberly McNair Brock still feels the effects of what happened to her family, even though it was years before she was born. “As kids
BET
Sep 15 2023
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60 years later: the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing remembered
At 10:22 a.m. on Sept. 15, 1963, going into what is known as the most segregated hour in the nation, Candi Staton sat in a Birmingham church with her young family. As the pastor prepared to deliver the sermon, a deacon burst through the door, yelling for everyone to get out. In another part of the city, dynamite planted by the Ku Klux Klan exploded in the basement of 16th Street Baptist Church
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Aug 24 2023
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Evangelicals’ Theology of the Church Must Be Born Again
Most people who stopped attending evangelical churches in recent years are not “nones” or exvangelicals.
In fact, many still self-identify as born-again Christians with perfectly orthodox Christian beliefs, according to Jim Davis and Michael Graham’s newly released The Great Dechurching. These Christians believe in the Trinity, the atonement, and the reality of Jesus as their personal
Christianity Today
Aug 30 2023
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Churches, Christians respond as Hurricane Idalia batters Florida
Churches across Florida canceled services, offered help, and hunkered down as Hurricane Idalia made landfall as an “extremely dangerous Category 3” storm Wednesday, and at least two people have already died in weather-related crashes across the state. “Hurricane Idalia has made landfall in Florida, bringing flooding and damage, and is now headed to Georgia and the Carolinas,” announced the
The Christian Post
Sep 17 2023
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Pickup driver dies after crashing into Waterbury church after colliding with SUV: PD
A man has died after the pickup he was driving collided with an SUV, then crashed into a church in Waterbury early Sunday morning. Police said a pickup and sport utility vehicle collided around 3:43 a.m. in the area of West Main Street and Church Street, then the pickup hit Saint John’s Episcopal Church at 16 Church St. A 43-year-old man was driving the pickup and police said he was
NBC Connecticut
Sep 19 2023
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Bloody woman in Mustang flags pastor down at church, leads deputies to Facebook friend's body
An Autryville, North Carolina, pastor was stunned to see a woman covered in blood appear out of nowhere in a red Ford Mustang as he was closing his church on Sunday night. Samantha Haines, 31, told that pastor she believed she tried to kill someone and urged him to call 911, according to local NBC affiliate WRAL. “I asked her what was going on and she said that she thought she had hurt someone
Law & Crime
Sep 15 2023
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Victim’s sister, bombing suspect’s daughter unite on 60th anniversary of church attack
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Sixty years ago, a bomb planted by Ku Klux Klan members ripped through a Birmingham church, killing four girls as they prepared for Sunday services. Lisa McNair’s sister Denise was one of the girls who lost their lives. Tammie Fields’ father was questioned as a possible suspect in the church bombing but never charged. Decades after the bombing, the two women met at a Black
The Columbian
Sep 15 2023
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60 Years After Birmingham Church Bombing, America Remembers Victims of Racial Violence
On the 60th anniversary of the bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, Americans paused to remember the young victims of racial violence. RELATED: Condoleezza Rice: 9/11 Shows Us How to Respond to This Crisis with Faith Just two weeks after Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream Speech,” members of the Ku Klux Klan set off dynamite beneath the Birmingham
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