However, the researchers took into account these differences between churchgoers and non-churchgoers when they calculated the decrease in death rates of 13% to 33%.
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The national association, which claims a constituency of 30 million affiliated churchgoers, has become less white over the last decade, and black and Hispanic churchgoers are more likely to oppose capital punishment.
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According to AP, she shook hands and embraced Muslim churchgoers.
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First responders helped churchgoers get treatment at a Marshalltown hospital.
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After a mass shooter massacred churchgoers in Sutherland Springs, Tex.
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On one hand, churchgoers (and many non-churchgoers) appreciate the fact that the country's bishops have regularly called their authoritarian rulers to account and acted as a minimal break on the slide towards totalitarianism.
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Fellow churchgoers embrace her, and tell her it will get better.
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On Sunday, the pair is set to address churchgoers in Miami.
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Here's the life-saving advice he gives churchgoers and doomsday preppers.
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Dylann Roof, who gunned down churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina nearly
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But for many black churchgoers, the current breach feels particularly painful.
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A network of fellow churchgoers proved to be a good resource.
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Three years later, two churchgoers were wounded in a similar attack.
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The first responders helped the churchgoers get treatment at a Marshalltown hospital.
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He walked into the church and shot the churchgoers in cold blood.
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"Celebrate you," the greeters told churchgoers, smiling as everyone took their seats.
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While tourists moon over masterpieces, local churchgoers and visiting pilgrims worship her.
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In June, a gunman killed nine black churchgoers during a Bible study class.
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"They're our heroes tonight, I'll tell you that," he said of the churchgoers.
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It is quite possible that many ordinary churchgoers are saying "Amen" to that.
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Black churchgoers, on the other hand, remain a consistent, critical constituency for Democrats.
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The app has already signed up 700 churches, and almost 50,000 individual churchgoers.
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They accused elderly women, devoted churchgoers, and even a 4-year-old girl.
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Because of the mask, churchgoers did not immediately recognize him, the police said.
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Mr. Wagner was taken with the timeless quality of these churchgoers in Harlem.
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Turns out a lot of black churchgoers felt like outsiders in Chicago, too.
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Latinx churchgoers are less likely to be fully integrated into their local churches.
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Until two weeks ago, when churchgoers discovered their familiar Jesus in an unfamiliar state.
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The churchgoers saw the posts, found the vehicle and called it in to police.
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As they took their places along the benches, the churchgoers sang a Ugandan hymn.
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Roof is facing the death penalty for killing nine black churchgoers in June 2015.
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But on Sunday, the number of churchgoers exceeded the entire population of Sutherland Springs.
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" Antifa teens walked with churchgoers who held up signs reading "mass instead of hate.
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Indeed, many churchgoers who spoke to Reuters said they supported the war on drugs.
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As white churchgoers, especially evangelicals, cheered the outcome, black worshipers began to trickle away.
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African-American spiritual leaders are talking about racism — and some white churchgoers are listening.
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And the 26 churchgoers in Texas won't be enough to make us change either.
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Conservative parties are torn between pro-refugee churchgoers and nationalists who want more border controls.
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Keith and his family were regular churchgoers, his brother, Bruce Braden, told the Indianapolis Star.
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Several Slavic Baptist leaders told churchgoers not to discuss the issue publicly and to pray.
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What if we were told by our fellow churchgoers that we needed to find Diosito?
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Reuters confirmed the group's account with activists and churchgoers who had spoken with Wang's mother.
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He was convicted on 33 federal charges for killing the nine black churchgoers last year.
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All of them were regular churchgoers, yet none of them appeared torn about being there.
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The two Texas attacks have heightened worries among churchgoers in neighboring Oklahoma, said the Rev.
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Franklin had forged an uncommon connection with "the youth," as the elder churchgoers called us.
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An Air Force veteran kills 26 churchgoers in a small town near San Antonio. Nov.
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He went on to murder nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015.
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Roof opened fire on a dozen black churchgoers in Charleston in June 2015, killing nine.
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Sanders delivered his typical stump to nearly 800 churchgoers lined up for a Sunday feast.
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DePayne Middleton, was gunned down along with nine other black churchgoers on June 783, 278.
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DePayne Middleton, was gunned down along with nine other black churchgoers on June 219, 22016.
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It now has several campuses around the country, funded by the tithes paid by regular churchgoers.
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The Democratic Party has become a group of Christmastime churchgoers where church is the presidential campaign.
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The video then cuts to a service, where the churchgoers join together to sing the song.
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" Tatiana agreed, saying that, "If you live in a community of churchgoers, they won't respond well.
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Democrats tell stories of the impact of mass shootings on churchgoers, office-workers, and school children.
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Online groups and forums provide many sexually adventurous churchgoers with a virtual community, resources, and support.
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Mr. Pinckney was the first wounded, and the churchgoers began diving below the room's circular tables.
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Churchgoers dove below tables but Mr. Roof kept firing, striking the victims at least 60 times.
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Or that many Chinatown churchgoers fake their faith in order to help their political asylum applications?
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It was true in Charleston, when black churchgoers were mowed down by another radicalized white man.
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The Masons, devout churchgoers, may be a touch goofy, but they're kind, always selfless, never complicated.
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Tackitt added that there was likely "no way" for churchgoers to escape after the shooting started.
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Days and nights of prayer, procession and merrymaking are enjoyed by churchgoers alongside friends and neighbors.
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Roof killed nine black churchgoers at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.
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Trump has an advantage with whites, men, avid churchgoers, and people who are nearing retirement age.
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The supporters struck altar boys and churchgoers as they attempted to enter the church, Padilla said.
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He connects as easily with blue-collar white guys as he does with black female churchgoers.
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Each event comes complete with a choir, and performers and churchgoers dress in his branded clothing.
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In Chicago, black churchgoers were an instrumental voting bloc behind Mayor Lori Lightfoot's landslide victory in April.
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The finding that 18% of Britons and 40% of Italians are regular churchgoers looks much too high.
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Born of a winter festival called Candlemas Day, the celebration found churchgoers bringing candles to be blessed.
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Intended to do something terrible Then the man asked to speak to the 60 or so churchgoers.
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Fearing fellow churchgoers would judge them for her diagnosis, her parents kicked her out of the house.
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Where African-American churchgoers differ is in the political issues they're likely to talk about in church.
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The hate-fueled shooting of the churchgoers as they closed their eyes to pray stunned the country.
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The regular churchgoers still have their community, and the active local political organizations have their regular meetings.
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The 255-year-old was easily agitated, and had made threatening comments to other churchgoers and online.
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He has another term to describe the difference between what black churchgoers profess and what they practice.
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Her family, friends, and fellow churchgoers who do know can&apost believe she was chosen, she said.
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Wilson had previously trained other churchgoers to use firearms, and had his own shooting range, Paxton said.
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At the same time the CSU's anti-migrant stance has put off pro-refugee conservatives, in particular churchgoers.
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After an hour, as congregants had their heads bowed in prayer, Roof opened fire, killing nine black churchgoers.
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It's not at all clear that Buttigieg would be able to win over more churchgoers than other candidates.
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Early in the Obama era, I began noticing a disturbing change in the attitudes of some fellow churchgoers.
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" This contrasted with earlier eras when "American leaders were often churchgoers but their governing spirit was refreshingly secular.
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And churchgoers listened to the heartbreaking words of those who are forever intertwined with this week of tragedy.
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When I got out of prison, I changed my circle of friends to churchgoers rather than UVF members.
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Last year, white supremacist Dylann Roof was condemned to death for killing nine black churchgoers in South Carolina.
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Even for young, progressive churchgoers, his support of abortion rights "still may be a deal breaker," Jewett noted.
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Perhaps coincidentally, they are also less likely than older churchgoers to say they feel God's presence at services.
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Two months after that, nine black churchgoers in Charleston were murdered by the white supremacist Dylann S. Roof.
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In Charleston, S.C., Dylann S. Roof, the white supremacist who shot nine black churchgoers, was sentenced to death.
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Among churchgoers in the UAE, excitement at the visit has been at fever-pitch, church leaders told CNN.
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Pope mania in the UAE But among churchgoers in the UAE, the excitement is palpable, church leaders say.
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Yet the clergy's sway over the hearts and souls of regular churchgoers had been waning and church attendance falling.
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In April, five churchgoers, including a pastor, were killed in a deadly attack by armed men in Silgadji town.
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Charleston shooting Dylann Roof has been found guilty of killing nine churchgoers at a South Carolina church in 2015.
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An emaciated man was pushed about a megachurch in a wheelchair as churchgoers declared that he was already healed.
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Police surrounded 134 churches in Kinshasa alone, beat and tear-gassed churchgoers, and shot live rounds into fleeing congregations.
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Part of Asoriba's appeal is its ability to connect churchgoers to the church without them physically attending a service.
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For longtime churchgoers, like Ruth Carter, who's been coming for most of her life, the pride was almost palpable.
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Politicizing Christianity also secularized it; no one, not even ardent churchgoers, can build a political machine without making compromises.
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Barros was named bishop of Osorno in 2015 by Pope Francis, who ignored objections from some clergy and churchgoers.
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He averted his eyes from the roughly 15 friends and family members of slain churchgoers who sat behind him.
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Reporter: Two terrorists still in the church during morning Mass taking a priest, two nuns and two churchgoers hostage.
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The show includes fragments from choir books and books-of-hours (lavishly illustrated devotional texts made for everyday churchgoers).
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In a nearby chapel, the pageant's blaring pop songs mixed with the steady rhythm of churchgoers reciting the rosary.
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Although jurors condemned men for massacres in Charleston, S.C., where nine churchgoers were killed, and at Fort Hood, Tex.
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In some congregations deacons scold female churchgoers for keeping their hair short and suggest that they try weaves instead.
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The letter also called for Communion wafers to be delivered by hand instead of onto the tongues of churchgoers.
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Gunmen targeting black churchgoers in South Carolina, Indian immigrants in Kansas and police officers in New York and Texas.
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That later forced Daegu officials to ask over 1,000 churchgoers to stay home and isolate themselves from their families.
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Ripping children away from their parents under the pretense of community safety when these are our neighbors and churchgoers?
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Willie Wilson is a prominent businessman and gospel music impresario with a following among older black churchgoers in Chicago.
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He says those black churchgoers who voted for Lightfoot weren't defying black church tradition; some were acting within it.
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As security officials arrived to secure the site, angry churchgoers gathered outside and hurled insults, accusing them of negligence.
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A mass in his honor was held in a packed Catholic cathedral, where churchgoers draped themselves in Croatian flags.
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"The word 'compromise' sounds good but to some churchgoers it will sound like you are abandoning your faith," he said.
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" He added, "My family and I are praying for all loved ones, churchgoers, and community members impacted by this tragedy.
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In that timeframe, the portion of American churchgoers who attended multiracial churches went up from 12.7 percent to 18.3 percent.
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The letter informed churchgoers the order&aposs review board looked into allegations of improper conduct by Phillips involving adult men.
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Even as polls show increasing support for gay rights among segments of the religious population, black churchgoers still lag behind.
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The national dialogue began after Dylann Roof murdered nine Black churchgoers in June 2015 during a racially-motivated shooting spree.
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Still, the Wises had no desire to shed all of their countercultural ways for the conventional mores of suburban churchgoers.
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In conversations with churchgoers, Hollas said, none could remember a time when their congregations had specifically spoken about gun violence.
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A religious leader like Falwell in particular, Scott said, was key to convincing undecided voters and on-the-fence churchgoers.
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It's no secret that the Democratic donor class supports a social agenda that's more compatible with Hollywood than black churchgoers.
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But most churchgoing Republicans preferred other candidates; only 15 percent of weekly churchgoers were steady Trump supporters from the start.
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The gunman has been described by churchgoers as tall, slim, wearing a black striped shirt, black pants and a bandana.
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It is also worth pointing out that in pretty much every Protestant denomination, women are a large majority of churchgoers.
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And far fewer are actively religious: The percentage of regular churchgoers may be as low as 15 to 20 percent.
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Yet last year's Pew study found that about two-thirds of regular churchgoers had heard political statements from the pulpit.
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Weekly churchgoers, who make up more than half of likely caucus-goers, back Cruz over Trump by 29% to 17%.
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Support is much lower (55 percent) among frequent churchgoers than among people with loose or no religious ties (89 percent).
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It's also not uncommon for black churchgoers to seek refuge in the church over going to a mental health professional.
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Last Sunday about a hundred churchgoers packed into the sanctuary of the Lindsay Street Baptist Church for a 10 a.m. service.
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In the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton won 67 percent of self-identified Hispanic Catholics and the vast majority of black churchgoers.
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The memorial had been adorned with four Confederate flags until the massacre of black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015.
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In 2012, churchgoers in Mumbai believed that they had their own modern-day miracle when a statue of Jesus began crying.
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Roof pleaded guilty earlier this year to separate state murder charges in the deaths of the nine black churchgoers he killed.
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Wang fears, however, the situation will worsen, given the authorities have started describing the church as a "cult" when pressuring churchgoers.
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Cruz shook hands and posed for photos with churchgoers following the service, many of whom said they were praying for him.
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"It&aposs not about religious beliefs but about a humanitarian reason," Cardinal Mario Poli, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, told churchgoers.
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The Republican nominee's speech was also well-received by the churchgoers, who passionately applauded his call for economic improvement in Detroit.
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Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), with a fundraiser in Sarasota on Saturday (and an event addressing churchgoers on Sunday in Miami). --Oct.
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Security forces shot dead at least six people and wounded dozens more last Sunday while breaking up a protest of churchgoers.
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VICE asked them about the balance between religion and kink, judge-y fellow churchgoers, and telling their kids about their choices.
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Wolfe House and Building Movers, a Pennsylvania firm owned by Sabbath-observing churchgoers, did not want to move it on Sunday.
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A Pew study from last year found that about two-thirds of regular churchgoers had heard political statements from the pulpit.
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Churchgoers said they had prevented more casualties by closing the door to the church and stopping the attacker from getting inside.
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It's also not uncommon for black churchgoers to seek refuge in the church rather than going to a mental health professional.
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While many churchgoers have fled the area for fear of further disasters, some like Nikson Sihombing came from temporary evacuation centers.
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Because of the mask, churchgoers did not immediately recognize him even though he had previously attended services there, the police said.
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Herdman also pointed to Dylann Roof, the white supremacist convicted of murdering nine African American churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.
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Griffith and his family attended First Baptist Church in Odessa, and fellow churchgoers gathered Sunday morning to pay tribute to Griffith.
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His donors include co-workers at the hospital and Castellanos' biggest supporters -- his fellow churchgoers at City Church in nearby Homestead.
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It's also untrue that churchgoers have denied COVID-19 testing, are hiding from authorities, and are prohibited from using face masks.
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He told the agents he was trying not to think about either the dead churchgoers or how his parents might react.
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People who do not frequently attend church are twice as likely to believe in ghosts as those who are regular churchgoers.
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When his father passed away, van Gogh revisited the painting to add churchgoers in the foreground, including women wearing mourning shawls.
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These parties are realizing that going along with pastors generates voter excitement, even if only among churchgoers, and excitement equals power.
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If I had to guess, I'd say a higher percentage of attendees were churchgoers than in some segments of the public.
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Pastor Tony Spell, who says the coronavirus is "politically motivated," gathers together more than 1,000 churchgoers in a state that is becoming a national coronavirus hotspot A Louisiana pastor intends to keep hosting more than 1,000 churchgoers at both a Sunday service and a following Tuesday service in Baton Rouge, La., NBC News affiliate WAFB reports.
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Six other churchgoers, all over the age of 60, suffered gunshot wounds, but they were expected to survive, authorities said Sunday evening.
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The remaining objections are concentrated among the religiously observant, though Gallup finds that a narrow majority of weekly churchgoers support assisted dying.
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Clinton and her allies have flooded the airwaves with millions in ads, targeting veterans, black millennials, suburban white voters and black churchgoers.
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We need the worlds of modern social science and today's black churchgoers to coexist to help deal with these mounting issues together.
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Those jitneys still thrive, Uber or not, because they take such tender care of their clientele of old people, churchgoers and shoppers.
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The Russian RBK Daily quoted an Orthodox priest as saying that the attacker had opened fire on churchgoers after an afternoon service.
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A white supremacist's massacre of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., led to more than 500 quilts, prayer shawls and other textiles.
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Churchgoers dressed in robes with conical hoods process through the city with ornately carved statuettes of saints swathed in gold brocade garments.
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In Naples on Tuesday, religious authorities suggested that churchgoers refrain from exchanging the sign of peace, shaking hands or embracing during Mass.
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How, for example, are black churchgoers' voting habits any different than those of white evangelicals who support Trump and oppose gay rights?
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Simmons, the PBS consultant, says a new generation of black churchgoers and pastors aren't preoccupied with issues of gender and sexual orientation.
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Over two weekends, she came in contact with over 1,000 churchgoers who met at Daegu's Shincheonji outpost for tightly packed prayer services.
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Carson and Rubio combined pulled 24% of weekly churchgoers in Selzer's poll — roughly the same total that Cruz has with the group.
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Willie Wilson, a philanthropist and mayoral candidate in Chicago, handed out $300,000 to churchgoers Sunday to help pay property taxes and other expenses.
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Roof killed nine black churchgoers in South Carolina in 2015; the Boston Marathon bombing killed three people and injured hundreds others in 2013.
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Previous research suggests that male churchgoers also benefit, though their decrease in death rate is not as large as among women, VanderWeele said.
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That momentum after Mathis's action felt like a beacon of hope among churchgoers who hadn't always felt support from their families of origin.
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Although church leaders remain decades behind on acceptance, Packer said churchgoers have "becoming more informed, more tolerant, and more loving" in recent years.
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South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds in 2015, after a self-described white supremacist killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston.
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A group of churchgoers are slaughtered during a prayer service even as they welcome the young man full of hate to their group.
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Dylann Roof, the unemployed white supremacist who murdered nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., was born nearby in the city of Columbia.
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The latest, in which 26 churchgoers were shot to death at Sunday worship in Texas, offered all the most cruel and terrifying characteristics.
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The first blast went off while churchgoers were inside the Jolo Cathedral in Sulu province, a stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf militant group.
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Polls showed that three-quarters of the churchgoers in an archdiocese of millions believed that cases of pedophile priests had been covered up.
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In Texas, Ted Cruz thinks even a clip of Beto O'Rourke saying perfectly reasonable things to black churchgoers will help his flailing campaign.
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It echoed the 2015 killings of nine African-American churchgoers in South Carolina by an avowed white supremacist, who was sentenced to death.
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In the courtroom Monday, an FBI agent read aloud a racist rant Roof had penned before he shot and killed nine churchgoers in 2015.
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For years I sat with prosperity churchgoers and asked them about how they drew conclusions about the good and the bad in their lives.
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We used to come here a lot, Sunday afternoons when it was packed with churchgoers just out of service, resplendent in their Sunday finery.
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Still, generous as churchgoers in the United States often are, there will be other calls on their money as storms hit their own country.
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Legalising same-sex marriage was approved by only 58% of churchgoers, compared with 80% of non-practising Christians and 87% of the spiritually unattached.
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Dolls and figurines are arranged to reenact scenes from everyday life, like women doing aerobics, children jumping rope, or churchgoers singing at Sunday service.
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The New Orleans city council voted in 2015 to remove the Confederate memorials, following the shooting deaths of nine black churchgoers in South Carolina.
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South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from its Statehouse grounds in 2015, after a self-described white supremacist killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston.
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About as many churchgoers — one in 10 — reported that they had heard clergy members speak against a presidential candidate as in support of one.
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Republicans traditionally won overwhelming victories with the white working class in the South and among regular churchgoers, while Democrats won with less devout Northerners.
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Dylann S. Roof, the white supremacist who killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., in June 2015, was captured the day after his rampage.
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Wearing black tactical-style gear and carrying that rifle, Kelley entered the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs and opened fire on the churchgoers.
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In interviews on Sunday, churchgoers in several cities were sharply divided on the issue, including on whether Christian teachings supported giving priority to Christians.
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"Fierce hyenas," Father Harvin Padilla said in a sermon to churchgoers as the government supporters tried to push past the barricades, the footage showed.
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Then Republicans could match that data with voting history and come up with a list of churchgoers who infrequently show up on Election Day.
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She doesn't seem to care that many of those guns will be pointed at our kids, our teachers, churchgoers, moviegoers, concertgoers, our police officers.
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The signatories, ranging from back-to-basics evangelicals to churches using ancient rites, certainly speak for some churchgoers but probably not for all of them.
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Family and friends of victims of the deadly attack on churchgoers in Russia's Dagestan region attend a funeral service in Kizlyar, Russia, on Feb. 20.
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Killing white police officers who are guarding a peaceful demonstration certainly qualifies as terrorism, in the same way that Roof's attack on black churchgoers does.
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"The authorities hope numbers will dwindle till it becomes impossible to continue, but in recent months ever-more churchgoers have been attending service," she said.
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Throughout this time, and because of the battles raging across the country, many of these churches began to align themselves with Democrats, and churchgoers followed.
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The debate was just a block away from the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, the site of last year's racially-motivated shooting of nine churchgoers.
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In the same interview he cited the "good things" that stemmed from Dylann Roof's massacre of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015.
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He refused, leaving Orthodox churchgoers loyal to the Moscow Patriarchate to set up their own far more modest place of worship in a Paris garage.
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It originated as a small movement in the 1840s, but by the 1970s, millions of evangelical and fundamentalist churchgoers had embraced some form of it.
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Security forces shot dead at least six people and wounded dozens more last Sunday when they broke up a protest by churchgoers in the capital.
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Clementa Pinckney, was one of the nine black churchgoers gunned down by a white supremacist during a Bible study in the Charleston place of worship.
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A unanimous jury sentenced Dylann Roof to death for killing nine black churchgoers as they attended Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015.
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The same process is scheduled to start next week in the federal trial of Dylann Roof, the white supremacist accused of killing nine black churchgoers.
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In a picture called "Many Mansions," three men dressed in formal clothes, like churchgoers or undertakers, appear to be either gardening or digging a grave.
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She refused to be tested in hospital despite presenting symptoms, and coming into close contact with more than 1,000 churchgoers at several tightly packed services.
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John Tecklenburg, Mayor of Charleston, SCA Charleston church was the site of a deadly 2015 shooting of unarmed African American churchgoers by a white supremacist.
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The sense of urgency mirrors the reaction to the 2015 murders of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., by a white supremacist, Dylann S. Roof.
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The following month, 26 people were killed after a gunman opened fire on churchgoers attending a Sunday service at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
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As most churchgoers took cover between the pews, Wilson pulled out a handgun, assumed a shooting stance and dropped the gunman with a single round.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has been hit by unrest this month following the shooting of protesting pro-democracy churchgoers opposed to President Joseph Kabila.
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This might explain why Trump felt the need to give a speech at Liberty University, where he could secure his small but crucial lead among churchgoers.
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Witnesses said the first blast inside the Jolo cathedral in the provincial capital sent churchgoers, some of them wounded, to stampede out of the main door.
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In the Texas shooting, where 26 churchgoers were killed, the United States Air Force had failed to upload the shooter's assault conviction into the national database.
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Russian news agencies said the attack occurred as churchgoers celebrated Maslenitsa, a Christian holiday marking the last day before Lent according to the eastern Orthodox calendar.
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Churchgoers were able to take the baby from the woman's arms and pry the gun from her hands before tackling her to the ground, Delmitros said.
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Just before Christmas in 20153, The Verge saw Pavel at a Sunday service, which, according to churchgoers, he has been attending regularly in the past year.
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Roof, who is facing the death penalty for killing nine black churchgoers in June 2015, has chosen to represent himself in this portion of the trial.
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Following the massacre of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, last June, Confederate battle flags were removed from statehouse grounds in that state and Alabama.
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Last month, the popular pastor denounced what he called "pulpit pimps" before inviting churchgoers to take money from the collection plate, according to the Charlotte Observer.
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And just this month, terrorists hit three churches in Surabaya, launching coordinated suicide attacks in the middle of Sunday morning services that left 18 churchgoers dead.
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Only a minority of Italians are regular churchgoers, and many defy church teaching on divorce and on abortion, which is legal (though difficult to procure) here.
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Among self-described "churchgoers" in Texas, though, Cruz leads Trump by double-digits, while Trump leads Cruz by double-digits among those who never attend church.
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The introduction of his measure comes days after a gunman opened fire on churchgoers attending a Sunday service at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
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When The Wall Street Journal recently profiled the Trump coalition, they found that despite his supporters' secular tilt, 38 percent still described themselves as weekly churchgoers.
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In 2015, a man murdered nine black churchgoers at a church in Charleston, S.C. A jury earlier this year sentenced that shooter, Dylann Roof, to death.
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Her mother, Ethel Lance, was one of the nine black churchgoers shot dead by a white supremacist during a Bible class in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.
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Yet Lightfoot was able to get many of the same churchgoers, including many who declare that "God didn't make Adam and Steve," to vote for her.
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Calling this an "unprecedented crisis," Daegu Mayor Kwon Young-jin has urged churchgoers to stay indoors, while shutting down kindergartens, malls, restaurants, and other public spaces.
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Confederate flags and statues have received fresh criticism following the racially motivated 2015 shooting at an African-American church in Charleston, S.C., that killed nine churchgoers.
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Mr. Antonsen and his wife were lifelong churchgoers who sent their children to Sunday school and counted themselves as members of a parish in the archdiocese.
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Several municipalities in Mississippi removed the state flag from government property in the wake of the Charleston, South Carolina, shooting that left nine African-American churchgoers dead.
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"You can use this place as long as you want — as many Sundays as you wish," Abe Ajrami, the Islamic center&aposs treasurer, told the churchgoers Sunday.
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Last week, as "heartbeat" abortion bills were becoming law in more and more states, he reminded churchgoers and those driving by that transgender people have heartbeats too.
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But the unfortunate reality is that the shooter got away with killing 26 churchgoers before the resident tried to stop him as he was leaving the church.
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Bush's apparent attempt to target black churchgoers called to mind June 2016, 224, when nine people were murdered at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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"The term 'crazy lesbian' was thrown around the courtroom," she told me after the service, as churchgoers stacked chairs and packed up the keyboard in the ballroom.
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But the main aim of St. Mary's' brewing operation isn't to make the world's best beer, but to connect with the local community—whether churchgoers or not.
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Charleston, South Carolina (CNN)Dylann Roof, the admitted white supremacist who could face the death penalty for killing nine black churchgoers, was back in court Wednesday morning.
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Sign of remembrance Confederate monuments on public property became controversial in Southern cities after a white supremacist massacred nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015.
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But during Sunday Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, it seemed either the pontiff's message had not yet reached across the Atlantic or the churchgoers were not listening.
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At the news conference Thursday, Sheriff Bobby Guidroz of St. Landry Parish said that law enforcement officials would do "whatever it takes" to protect churches and churchgoers.
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If what people do is any reflection of who they are, then Devin P. Kelley, who slaughtered 247 churchgoers on Sunday in Texas, surely was a madman.
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I think the bishops meeting in Baltimore know that this is a possibility, that they may be responsible for the loss of churchgoers, the loss of souls.
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Almost a thousand people attended, many of them pastors, there to be "equipped," in church parlance, to return home and help churchgoers make sense of their lives.
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Other Southern cities had removed dozens of Confederate monuments from public property after a self-described white supremacist massacred nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015.
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Catholic and evangelical churchgoers across Congo had meant to take to the streets following Sunday services, but they were met with police and soldiers deployed to stop them.
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The simple, aspirational lyrics of "We Shall Overcome" have been sung by everyone from churchgoers to civil rights protesters to Southern labor activists to the United States president.
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Black churchgoers are largely anti-abortion, pro-traditional marriage, and pro-Second Amendment, especially those in high-crime areas seeking a way to protect themselves and their families.
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London may have relatively few who identify as Christian, but they are particularly enthusiastic: the capital's weekly churchgoers, many of them immigrants, have increased by 16% since 2005.
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Seven percent of churchgoers said they had heard anti-Trump talk from their clergy members in recent months, while 4 percent said they had heard anti-Clinton speech.
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Nearly three in 10 black Protestants said they had heard members of their clergy support or oppose candidates in church compared with one in 10 churchgoers over all.
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About two-thirds of recent churchgoers said they had heard clergy members speak about — in order of frequency — religious liberty, abortion, homosexuality, immigration, environmental issues or economic inequality.
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About half of the churchgoers left the black-and-gold worship room immediately after receiving their sacrament, with some heading straight to the gift shop to stock up.
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He also said several churchgoers at the nearby parish of St. Joseph who had tried to join the demonstrations after Sunday Mass had been shot by the police.
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For many churchgoers, consuming church the way we consume the news is more convenient, and more in line with our lifestyles than the old-fashioned Sunday morning visit.
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The newly saved Kanye West has brought his mysterious "Sunday Service" tradition to churchgoers across the country, performing with a gospel choir to join in praise and worship.
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However, the black church has not always condoned secular mental health care and churchgoers may feel that their faith is called into question if they seek extra help.
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In fact, a Pew survey found last August that nearly two-thirds of recent churchgoers had heard clergy speak out about at least one social or political issue.
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These pastors have traded a suit and tie for a leather jacket and cool sneakers in order to create the kind of branding that resonates with younger churchgoers.
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The round on Thursday included about 40 people affected by the shootings in Alpine, Santa Fe and Sutherland Springs, Texas, where a gunman fatally shot 26 churchgoers in November.
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A slightly larger share of white women than men and a notably larger share of regular than occasional churchgoers identify strongly with white identity, solidarity and feeling discriminated against.
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Mondays were out because churchgoers didn't want their Sundays messed with, and Wednesdays were typically market day in many towns and therefore not a great day to hold elections.
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Haley led an effort last year to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol after the killing of nine black churchgoers in Charleston.
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But then, things get weird when Colton asks the churchgoers if anyone wants to come up to the altar and accept Jesus into their hearts...and Josh gets up.
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Osteen's team has been working feverishly behind the scenes, teaming up with Ticketmaster to make sure everyone -- Kanye fans and churchgoers alike -- get a chance to see the performance.
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Casual friendships between golfing buddies or fellow churchgoers could be enough of a link — at least until the theory was called into question by a decision in December 2014.
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They are similar in that both treat the concerns of many faithful Catholics — conservative believers in the West, underground churchgoers in China — as roadblocks to the pope's grand strategy.
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The incident played out during heightened debate over the symbolism of the flag, triggered by the racially-motivated shooting deaths of nine black churchgoers in South Carolina weeks earlier.
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Washington (CNN)A group of churchgoers Sunday turned their backs to former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as he addressed the historic Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama.
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Because of the L.G.B.T. culture wars, many incorrectly assume that if conservative churchgoers are less accepting of sexual minorities, they are also less accepting of racial and religious minorities.
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A woman in one of the middle pews, holding a handgun aloft, calmly guided terrified churchgoers to safety as the pastor crawled down from the pulpit on all fours.
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Festivities for a city's patron saint sweep up citizens, churchgoers or not, and some 8,000 church-run oratories throughout Italy offer after-school programs and other activities for children.
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"We were planning on holding a Christmas celebration every year, but this year is different due to the tsunami," Sitorus said, as churchgoers lit candles and cried while praying.
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Other party chairs noted that they or close friends had ties to the church, which might explain the difference, especially since Republicans are more likely to be regular churchgoers.
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Nine churchgoers, all African-American, were shot by a young, white man who entered their Charleston, South Carolina, church, joined their Bible study for an hour and then opened fire.
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The plays are a hit with Black women and churchgoers who get to indulge themselves in storylines of dysfunction like extramarital affairs and drug abuse without betraying their religious principles.
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National Briefing | Midwest A priest is leaving a Battle Creek parish as some churchgoers became angered to learn that he led a Minnesota archdiocese during a clergy sex abuse scandal.
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But the churchgoers were STOKED to see their hero in the building and several people went up to Joel and asked if it would be cool to take some pics.
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French magistrates opened a formal investigation in April last year into a 24-year-old Algerian suspected of murdering a woman and planning a gun attack on churchgoers in Villejuif.
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Rather than physical deterioration, it seems to have been social erosion — not enough churchgoers and students, according to a report by the National Park Service — that hastened the town's end.
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First, the good news for despairing anti-Trump believers: Despite those polls showing him doing well with evangelicals and Catholics, Trump is not the first choice of most active churchgoers.
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The massacre of the nine churchgoers, gunned down after welcoming a stranger into their prayer group, shocked Americans of all races and sparked debate about race relations in the country.
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According to made-up witnesses shooter Devin Kelley "carried an Antifa flag and told the churchgoers 'this is a communist revolution' before unloading on the congregation,'" Your News Wire wrote.
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The Texas killer was not motivated by racial hatred, as was the killer of the Charleston churchgoers, but by family grievance, underlining the lethal combination of domestic abuse and firearms.
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The second point was clear during the Republican primaries, when the most reliable churchgoers tended to prefer Ted Cruz but the more secular part of the party was more Trumpist.
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For instance, a quarter of Trump voters who never attend church describe being white as "very important" to their identity; for the most frequent churchgoers voters, it was 9 percent.
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Prosecutors said she was particularly fascinated with the 1999 Columbine High School shooting and the 85033 Charleston, S.C., massacre, in which white supremacist Dylann Roof murdered nine African American churchgoers.
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They conducted surveys and market research and decided to build a church that would appeal to non-churchgoers, young business professionals, and men, who would then bring their families along.
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Inspired by these actions and an activist clergy, Catholics took to the streets by the thousands, prompting scenes of police beating up priests and tear-gassing churchgoers in the pews.
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Sensitivity about Confederate symbols reached a high point after nine African American churchgoers were slain in Charleston, South Carolina, by a man who allegedly announced his intention to kill black people.
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There are Sheelas in the collection of the National Museum of Ireland whose vulvas have been worn to a nub from medieval churchgoers rubbing them as part of a religious ceremony.
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In addition to being asked to install security cameras, some unofficial churches have been asked by police to take detailed lists of attendee IDs and phone numbers, churchgoers and activists say.
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Haley led a successful effort last year to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol after the killing of nine black churchgoers in Charleston.
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Joel's 11 AM service will mostly be made up of his regular churchgoers, and not droves of Kanye fans like at Ye's Sunday Service ... so for Kanye, this is uncharted territory.
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In Missouri, for instance, Ted Cruz beat Mr. Trump 56 percent to 30 percent among frequent churchgoers; among those attending church only "a few" times per year, Mr. Trump won handily.
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The pendulum is swinging back in favor of the Confederate battle flag and other emblems of Southern history, less than nine months after the massacre of black churchgoers in South Carolina.
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The man jailed in the shooting, who is black, left a note that referred to Dylann S. Roof, the white supremacist who murdered nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.
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From scowling barflies and clean-cut men celebrating the new year in Chinatown to Harlem churchgoers and weary-eyed hot dog vendors in Little Italy, all were captured by her lens.
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Kobe Bryant and eight others were killed in a helicopter crash on a Sunday that would change the world for churchgoers who saw the disaster unfold, my colleague John Branch wrote.
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Daniel Simmons Sr., a 74-year-old Vietnam veteran with a license to carry a concealed weapon, had not done more to protect the churchgoers as he always had his family.
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Religious older people should be encouraged to continue regular attendance at services and may benefit from a sense of spirituality and community, as well as the watchful eye of fellow churchgoers.
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"Our parish somberly apologizes for clerical abuse and we will ensure to create the environment where all female churchgoers are respected and treated with dignity," the church said in a statement.
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When they returned the next day with their placards, they were surprised to see dozens of churchgoers, activists and even priests, holding their own signs demanding Bishop Mulakkal be held accountable.
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For years, commuters have been able to use a contactless bank card to pay for train or bus rides, and more recently churchgoers have been able to do the same with donations.
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Among other factors, Republicans in the Northeast generally care less about religion than Republicans in the South, who are far more likely to describe themselves as frequent churchgoers and born-again Christians.
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GQ won this year's feature writing prize for a searing profile by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah of Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who killed nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.
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US federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Dylann Roof for the racially motivated murder of nine churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, last summer, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Tuesday.
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The churchgoers were on their way home in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's Baluchistan province, when two men on a motorcycle began shooting at them, local police official Ataullah Shah told Reuters.
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The rate of marijuana use among those who seldom or never attend a religious service is 14%, compared with 7% of those who go to church monthly and 2% of weekly churchgoers.
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The avid pro-lifer, who was popular with the district's churchgoers, was compelled to resign last year after revelations that he asked a woman half his age to abort their unborn child.
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Regardless of the endless research on the benefits of psychotherapy, black churchgoers are skeptical of the mental health care system, perhaps out of fear that it will undermine a more spiritual approach.
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After a week of simmering unrest following the shooting of protesting churchgoers in Kinshasa, Kabila gave his first news conference in six years and accused demonstrators of arson and attacking the police.
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Fifty years later, Friesen and Mbiwan would get involved in an early effort to change the street's name after nine black churchgoers were massacred at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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A sister of Dylann Roof, the man who massacred nine black churchgoers in South Carolina in 2015, was arrested for bringing weapons to school on the day of a nationwide student walkout.
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The white supremacist Dylann S. Roof, who gunned down nine black churchgoers in Charleston in 2015, was convicted of 33 counts, including hate crimes resulting in death, and ultimately sentenced to death.
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Trump told Bill Hemmer of Fox News in a separate interview that he felt Easter was an appropriate target day in part because he hoped churchgoers could attend services on the holiday.
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He noted that it was the 2015 murder of nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., by a white supremacist that led to the removal of the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds.
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It's not just played for laughs; in fact, at the end of the episode the churchgoers join Pera on a sing-a-along of the iconic classic track and it's surprisingly moving.
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He calls it a "beautiful contradiction" -- black churchgoers can embrace a doctrine that excludes a group of people but jettison those scriptures once they get to know and love such a person.
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Church leaders, in turn, have sought the support of conservative politicians to enshrine their view of society in law, liberal observers say, mindful that encroaching modernity is shrinking the ranks of churchgoers.
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The Polish Catholic Church is nonetheless divided and many secular theologians, priests and churchgoers would welcome Francis' message that the Church should be more compassionate toward "imperfect" Catholics, such as remarried divorcees.
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The fatal police shooting of unarmed black man Walter Scott last April and a white supremacist's massacre of nine black churchgoers in June sparked a series of protests over systemic racial discrimination.
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The Council of Conservative Citizens is also the group that Dylann Roof, the mass shooter who killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, last summer, cited as inspiration in his manifesto.
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Most prominently, South Carolina last year ended its 54-year practice of flying the Confederate battle flag on the Capitol grounds after nine black churchgoers were murdered by a Confederate sympathizer in Charleston.
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The church&aposs layout would&aposve made it difficult for churchgoers to flee a shooter who came through the front door, according to a congregant attending a vigil at the church Sunday night.
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This came on the heels of several Southern cities removing dozens of Confederate monuments from public property after a self-described white supremacist massacred nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 226.
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" "There is perhaps no action our leaders can take that would do more to heal our country and support our people than to provide a greater platform to the black churches and churchgoers.
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Poland remains one of Europe's most Catholic nations, with about 90 percent of citizens declaring allegiance to the church but the clergy's sway over the heart and soul of churchgoers has been waning.
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But many churchgoers had questions as to whether the damage was severe enough to prohibit rebuilding the church with its original structure, Bob Stopanjac, founder of the Serbian Association of New York, said.
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"Becoming the nominee of the party of Abraham Lincoln ... has been the greatest honor of my life," Trump told churchgoers at Great Faith Ministries, marking his first appearance at an African-American church.
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Martin Luther King Jr. observed that Sunday morning was the most segregated hour in America, but today one in five churchgoers worship in a congregation where no single ethnic or racial group predominates.
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Around this time, the statue of Robert E. Lee was targeted by activists for removal from a park in Charlottesville after the murder of nine black churchgoers in Charleston by a white supremacist.
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This is how the National Catholic Reporter described the process in an article earlier this month: Politically minded geofencers capture data from the cellphones of churchgoers, and then purchase ads targeting those devices.
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While Perry has made fans primarily of black women and churchgoers, his persistent reliance on downtrodden female protagonists to point out issues of misogyny and infidelity undercuts the audience he aims to celebrate.
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Twenty-six churchgoers were killed, and at least 20 others injured, during Sunday's shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a small town about 85033 miles east of San Antonio.
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And when Trump won, shockingly — with strong support from conservative churchgoers, however conflicted they might have been — the Trumpist faction claimed vindication, and among some Baptist pastors the knives came out for Moore.
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The measure is intended to close the "Charleston loophole"; Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who killed nine African American churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., bought a gun despite pending felony drug charges against him.
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Only after Dylann Roof, a self-proclaimed white supremacist, killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 did the Obama administration take small steps toward combating far-right violence, experts say.
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"Becoming the nominee of the party of Abraham Lincoln ... has been the greatest honor of my life," Trump told churchgoers at Great Faith Ministries International, marking his first appearance at an African-American church.
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If ordinary Sri Lankans were not yet dismayed enough, a locally-spawned terror group inspired by Islamic State launched a shatteringly destructive series of attacks last Easter, killing more than 250 churchgoers and tourists.
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Whether the targets are churchgoers in Charleston, the Family Research Council in Washington, Somali residents in Kansas, or a Sikh gurdwara in Wisconsin, our country must confront these voices of anger, hatred and violence.
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Many Carrier workers are regular churchgoers, but Ms. Hargrove said she was deeply troubled by how priests abused children, or how the police shot suspects even though their arms were raised in the air.
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Now he is thinking about what more he could do and has been eyeing the vat of holy water that churchgoers traditionally dip their fingers into every time they enter and exit the church.
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The center of gravity of Cruz's political coalition is regular churchgoers, and they imagine him as a sincere and devout Christian in contrast to Trump's rather louche lifestyle, which is crucial to his argument.
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Among non-churchgoing Trump voters, only 48 percent had warm feelings toward black people, compared to 71 percent of weekly churchgoers; the same sort of pattern held for views of Hispanics, Asians and Jews.
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In South Carolina, a racist manifesto written by Dylann Roof, above, after he gunned down black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., in 2015 was read aloud as jurors considered whether to sentence him to death.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese police fired teargas on Friday to disperse dozens of churchgoers who had gathered in the capital Kinshasa to mourn seven people killed in protests against President Joseph Kabila two weeks ago.
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In the days following the horrific attacks on churchgoers, we've learned that the murderer who carried out these heinous crimes was known to authorities as an individual who should have never owned a firearm.
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The apparently senseless attack on churchgoers marks the 307th mass shooting in the United States in 2017 — and it's still unlikely there will be any major policy changes to gun laws because of it.
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At the time, Confederate statues and monuments across the country were under increased scrutiny, especially following the murder of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, by an avowed racist who enjoyed Confederate symbology.
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Our cultural associations with the color are communions, weddings, and heaven (all associated with Christianity, a grotesquely ironic association considering that one of the subjects, Dylann Roof, carried out his vicious massacre on Black churchgoers).
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He was given a form, reviewed by the AP, which asked for churchgoers&apos names, educational background and addresses, as well as the length of time they had been faithful and whether they were baptized.
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New Life Church, a congregation of 10,000 people in Colorado Springs, Colorado, requires churchgoers to leave their guns in their vehicles, a decade after it was the scene of a deadly shooting that killed two.
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WATCH THIS: St. Patrick's Day By the Numbers Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda, who leads the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minnesota, encouraged churchgoers to perform another act of penance, according to the Catholic News Service.
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Archbishop Peter L. Gerety, who as a liberal leader of the Roman Catholic Church in America gave voice to the laity, to women and to lapsed churchgoers and preached for social justice, died on Sept.
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On a set of looming walls and fractured beams, his excellent chorus shifts from rig workers to churchgoers to brutal lovers with smooth, telling costume changes — as Bess wanders, nearly mad, from scene to scene.
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Churchgoers were also given a notice from the district religious affairs bureau saying that the "great masses of believer must respect the rules and regulations and attend events in legally registered places of religious activity".
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And if pastors and churchgoers were buying up block tickets and attending the film, the power of peer pressure also meant that many more people saw the film than might have gone on their own.
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Shortly after Dylann Roof, a white supremacist, killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., in 2015, several black churches were set ablaze in Southern states, though it was unclear whether the fires were racially motivated.
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Officials are also investigating a possible link between churchgoers and the spike in infections at the Cheongdo hospital, where more than 2000 people have been infected so far, mostly patients at a mental illness ward.
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Much as they may hate their behavior, and know full well how craven it is, they are willing to kill small children attending Sunday school and slaughter churchgoers who invite a white boy to pray.
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Sharon Risher often thinks these days about what she calls her "humanness": the passing impulse to crave the execution of the white supremacist accused of killing her mother and eight other black churchgoers last year.
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At the University of Northern Colorado, they are cheery and polite, an odd mix of the prim and the profane: schoolteachers and churchgoers in sensible shoes, paunchy middle-aged men in tattoos and biker leathers.
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One famous tract is "The Death Cookie" (22013), which proposes that the edible wafer consumed by Catholic churchgoers and members of some other denominations in the practice of the Eucharist is not what it seems.
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We now know how Devin Kelley, who was previously convicted of domestic abuse while he was in the Air Force, was able to purchase guns and on Sunday kill 26 churchgoers in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
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Nor does it help immigrants' would-be employers, their fellow churchgoers and even their local law enforcement officers, who recognize that the trust of everyone in the community is essential to keeping all of us safe.
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Dylann Roof's mass murder of nine black churchgoers in 2015 left behind many loved ones, some of whom have begun speaking out following a jury's decision Tuesday that Roof will die for his racially-motivated crimes.
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The Pew Research Center report revealed that Christians — whether or not they are churchgoers — are more likely than western Europeans who don&apost identify with a religion to express negative views of Muslims, Jews and migrants.
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On Sunday night in the city of Chengdu, police and state security officials detained dozens of churchgoers and leaders from the Early Rain Covenant Church, one of the better-known unregistered Protestant 'house' churches in China.
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Haley seemed to take another veiled shot at Trump later in her speech after tearing up talking about the lessons her state learned from pulling together after Dylann Roof allegedly killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston.
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A madman, not a gun, killed those churchgoers, and the shooter could've easily used household chemicals or an automobile, he said as the booms of shotgun blasts and cracks of assault rifles sounded in the distance.
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Many churchgoers now expect to sing some of the same refrains on Sunday that they hear on Christian radio during the week, and bands know that writing a popular worship song means having an evergreen hit.
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During the 2016 Republican primary, it was easy enough to argue that Trump was exploiting these divisions, winning Fox News-watching cultural evangelicals and prosperity-gospel types while losing churchgoers who cared about character and orthodoxy.
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A sister of Dylann Roof, the man who massacred nine black churchgoers in South Carolina in 2015, was arrested on Wednesday for bringing a knife, pepper spray and marijuana to her high school, the authorities said.
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Confederate monuments have come under heightened scrutiny since 2015, when a white supremacist murdered nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. A month later, South Carolina lawmakers removed a Confederate battle flag from outside the State House.
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But his history of mental health issues, domestic assault convictions, and military discharge didn't stop Kelley from legally purchasing an assault rifle that he later used to kill 26 churchgoers on Sunday, before taking his own life.
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As firefighters tirelessly worked to put out the last of the devastating Notre Dame Cathedral fire, there was a small glimmer of hope for churchgoers and tourists alike, as the cross still standing in the smoldering structure.
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The daughter of immigrants from India, Haley attracted national attention in 2015 when she secured the removal of the Confederate battle flag from South Carolina's capitol grounds after a white supremacist killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston.
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The effort developed amid a push by communities across the South to remove Confederate iconography from public property since the 2015 rampage killings of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, by a self-described white supremacist.
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"Holley and Gray targeted the retirement savings of churchgoers, building a bond of trust purportedly based on faith but actually based on false promises," David Glockner, director of the SEC office in Chicago, said in a statement.
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Update: A November 7 date has been set for the federal trial of Dylann Roof, the white man accused of a hate crime in the 2015 murders of nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, SC, according to Reuters.
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But it's a discomfiting fact that at least six murderers turn out to have used Stormfront as a resource, including Dylann Roof, who logged on as "LilAryan" before killing nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston in 2015.
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A United States congressman fell for a long-running hoax on Sunday, mistakenly telling CNN that the gunman who had killed 26 Texas churchgoers, including a pregnant woman and several children, was a man named Sam Hyde.
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Federal prosecutors rarely seek the death penalty, but they successfully did so for Dylann S. Roof, the avowed white supremacist who shot and killed nine African-American churchgoers in 2015, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber.
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Authorities say Kelley killed 26 churchgoers and injured and at least 85033 others when he opened fire outside and inside the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, a small town about 30 miles east of San Antonio.
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On the way to midnight mass, churchgoers would light fires so whoever was coming back and forth from mass could see and over time that grew and evolved into the Papa Noel story that is told today.
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Do they see the relationship between the violence in Oklahoma City and the shooting of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., in 2015 or the murder of 11 Jewish worshipers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018?
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In Ireland, historically among the most Catholic countries in the world, churchgoers are experiencing their own nationwide reckoning with sexual abuse of children by priests and a subsequent, systematic cover-up that allowed such abuse to happen.
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As churchgoers gathered this past Easter to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, attendees at the opening of Doreen Garner's current exhibition at JTT, She Is Risen, experienced a wholly different reflection on bodily sacrifice and rebirth.
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In just one decade of work in Mexico, Candela built his concrete shells to shelter not only scientists, churchgoers, and diners, but also factory workers at the Bacardi Bottling Plant and revelers at the oceanside La Jacaranda Nightclub.
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Solis told ABC News that the churchgoers began screaming when Kelley began unloading a hail of gunfire, but fell silent as the gunman made his way through the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs while reloading his gun.
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Malcolm Graham still remembers the shock when he learned that his beloved sister had been shot and killed at a church in South Carolina two years ago, in a massacre of nine black churchgoers by a white gunman.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - A knife-wielding attacker wounded four churchgoers in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta on Sunday before being shot and wounded by police who said they could not immediately confirm whether it was a terrorism-related incident.
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In the letter, the group of churchgoers, including clergy and church leadership, accused the attorney general of child abuse, immorality, racial discrimination and dissemination of doctrines contrary to the standards of the doctrine of the United Methodist Church.
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ATLANTA — Joseph C. Meek Jr., a friend of Dylann S. Roof, the man charged with killing nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., has agreed to cooperate with the authorities and plead guilty in his own criminal case.
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When the aptly named Sporting Life, a dope peddler (the vibrant Frederick Ballentine), debunks a literal reading of the Bible in "It Ain't Necessarily So," even the churchgoers who find him objectionable laugh, carry on and sing along.
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Ditto for Dylann Roof, the racist who murdered nine African-American churchgoers in South Carolina in 2015, and Christopher Harper-Mercer, the angry young man who killed nine people at a community college in Oregon the same year.
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Despite their resistance to that toxicity, the churchgoers in this survey did vote for him, making a pragmatic bet that his policies on abortion and religious liberty were worth living with his Caligulan personal life and racial demagoguery.
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In the days before Christmas, the Redemptorist Church of Baclaran in Manila mounted a photo exhibition of its victims, blood-soaked corpses strewn in the streets and grieving families, aimed to prick a sense of outrage among churchgoers.
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White power activists have long embraced a form of violent nationalism (or violent racism cloaked in nationalism), that is always on the lookout for enemies, from Vietnamese immigrants to black churchgoers to, at times, the federal government itself.
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Teammates said they were determined to play for Dylan -- who was known as DT -- and for everyone in the close-knit community, such as the churchgoers who welcomed players into their sanctuaries in the days following Dylan's death.
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The man said he drew inspiration from shooters like Dylann Roof, who in 2015 murdered nine Black churchgoers in South Carolina, and Anders Breivik, the Norwegian far-right terrorist who murdered 77 people, including children, in a 2011 attack.
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Having distinguished herself by the alacrity with which she had lobbied to remove the Confederate flag from government buildings the previous year, after a racist massacre of black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, Mrs Haley's condemnation carried moral weight.
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MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison thanked his fellow Pentecostal churchgoers on Sunday after a miraculous election victory that defied years of unfavorable opinion polls and bruised a Labor opposition that had been widely expected to win.
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Taking the median percentages across the 15 countries, Pew reported that 183% of churchgoers considered the Muslim faith to be incompatible with their "national culture and values" compared with 45% of non-practising Christians and 32% of the unattached.
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Since 2015, when a white supremacist, fond of posing for photos with the Confederate flag, slaughtered nine black churchgoers in South Carolina, there has been a concerted push to remove monuments to the Confederacy from public places across America.
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Reality star Beth Chapman died on Monday at the age of 51, a little over a month after telling Florida churchgoers that her cancer diagnosis was "the ultimate test of faith" as she alluded to ending her chemotherapy treatment.
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Seeking to show that plenty of rank-and-file churchgoers were behind Maduro, despite church leaders' anti-socialist rhetoric, at one rally Cabello asked for a show of hands from those who both backed the government and were Catholics.
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Then he looked at the comparatively small (15-point) difference that piety made: weekly churchgoers favoured Mr Trump over Mrs Clinton by nine points, while among the less devout, the Democrat was preferred to her rival by six points.
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In June 2015, after Dylann Roof murdered nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., Miller emailed McHugh with an outraged message about retailers pulling Confederate flags from their stores, pointing her toward statistics on Confederate deaths in the Civil War.
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The government has decided that message is too powerful — that sending a message to unauthorized immigrants isn't worth the cost of scaring people out of taking their children to school, or provoking criticism from religious groups for targeting churchgoers.
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The letter from the Cathedral's leadership also explains that the Cathedral first began a dialogue about slavery and racial justice following the 2015 racially motivated shooting at a historic African-American church in Charleston, S.C., that killed nine churchgoers.
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SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (Reuters) - The tiny Texas town reeling from a gun massacre that killed 26 churchgoers buried the first of the victims on Saturday, in a remote cemetery where a series of funerals is being held this week.
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When President Barack Obama sang "Amazing Grace" at the 2015 memorial service for the African-American churchgoers who were brutally killed by Dylann Roof, he used the power of his office to bring some feeling of healing and calm.
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MANAGUA/MASAYA, Nicaragua (Reuters) - Supporters of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega tried to storm a church on Thursday, with a priest saying they hit churchgoers, as tension ratchets up between Roman Catholics and the government in the Central American country.
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To win the Democratic presidential nomination, it has become critical that a candidate shows the ability to attract older black churchgoers in South Carolina, where six in 26 Democratic primary voters are black and more than half are older than 217.
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James F. Tracy, 50, a tenured associate professor of communications at the Boca Raton university, has repeatedly called into question the authenticity of recent mass shootings, including the slaying of churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., and office workers in San Bernardino, Calif.
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The Air Force admitted Monday that it failed to report Devin Kelley's 2012 domestic violence convictions to the FBI allowing the alleged gunman to purchase the firearm he used to kill masses of churchgoers in the small town of Sutherland Springs.
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At another church in the working-class district of Barumbu, a Reuters correspondent saw a few dozen police officers using teargas and stun grenades against some 300 churchgoers, who waved bibles and sang religious songs as they tried to march.
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The daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley led a successful push last year to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol after the killing of nine black churchgoers in Charleston by a white gunman.
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The daughter of Indian immigrants, she led a successful push last year to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol after the killing of nine black churchgoers in Charleston by a white gunman.
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The video is a scene from the 2014 action film Kingsman: The Secret Service with Trump's face superimposed over actor Colin Firth as Firth's character massacres angry churchgoers — who in the video are labeled as various lawmakers, celebrities and news organizations.
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A similar tension was palpable in the months and years following the 2015 shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, or Mother Emanuel, in Charleston, South Carolina, where the white supremacist Dylann Roof gunned down nine black churchgoers. Then-Gov.
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I grew up Mormon, and was regularly told by churchgoers in my congregation that regardless of the message of love he preached, Rogers was actually a militant anti-Mormon who protested the construction of Latter-Day Saint churches and temples.
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The changes do however run the risk of provoking a culture shock among longtime members not familiar with more raucous preaching traditions, and some groups even carry stricter beliefs and practices like speaking in tongues that could appear shocking to more tradition churchgoers.
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But with both the governing Liberal-National coalition and the main opposition Labor Party more or less aligned on the issue, neither side has captured churchgoers en masse ahead of this election, according to Smith and several other Christian leaders interviewed by Reuters.
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The two events express the divide between the two presidential primary races on the issue of guns, which have been a focal point since the fatal shooting in June of nine churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., the site of next week's Republican debate.
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Speaking in general terms about the community and the case, Panych, the researcher studying post-Soviet Baptists, said that due to scarce finances, churchgoers have learned to accept politicians and wealthy parishioners, preferring to leave it up to God to judge their actions.
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As one example, the gunman who killed 1303 churchgoers in Sutherland Springs, Texas, should have been denied from obtaining a firearm after he was convicted of two counts for assaulting his spouse and their child while he was in the Air Force.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Many were surprised when Nadine Collier stood in a South Carolina courtroom a year ago and said she forgave the young white man who had just killed her mother and eight other black churchgoers in a racially motivated attack.
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YORK, Pa. (Reuters) - Many churchgoers said they were sickened and saddened by a grand jury report detailing widespread sexual abuse by hundreds of priests in Pennsylvania but they would not let the Roman Catholic Church's cover-up dissuade them from their faith.
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For a brief moment, after a white supremacist carried out a massacre of black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., it seemed as though the Confederate battle flag, that most divisive of symbols, might soon be on its way out of the American political arena.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - White supremacist Dylann Roof deserves to die for the hate-fueled killings of nine black churchgoers at a Bible study meeting in a Charleston, South Carolina, a U.S. jury said on Tuesday after deliberating for less than three hours.
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McCrummen went to an evangelical congregation — First Baptist Church in Luverne, Alabama — and asked churchgoers how they reconciled their view of Christian morality with their support for a president who's allegedly had not one, but two separate extramarital affairs with porn actresses.
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But the grim spectacle of students, churchgoers and concert attendees being killed by individuals wielding military-style semiautomatic rifles has mobilized gun control advocates in a new way — and pushed even red- and purple-state Democrats to move abruptly in their direction.
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The massacre of nine black churchgoers by a white supremacist in Charleston, S.C., in 2015 prompted a national call for such symbols to be removed, and they have come down in cities across the country, including Baltimore, Columbia, S.C., and New Orleans.
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In "In Trump's Remarks, Black Churches See a Nation Backsliding," Sabrina Tavernise writes: On the day before Martin Luther King's Birthday, African-American churchgoers gathered as they always do, to pray, give thanks and reflect on the state of race in America.
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According to the BBC, Mr. Parnham was caught because his DNA and fingerprints were recovered from some of the letters, including one sent to Dylann Roof, the white supremacist on death row for massacring nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.
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The three attacks unsettled residents and churchgoers who, like the sexual assault victim on the night she was abused, often use the same corridor of auto repair shops and storefront churches to get to the Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer subway station nearby.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - A sword-wielding attacker who injured at least three churchgoers and a police officer in Indonesia's Yogyakarta city at the weekend had attempted to travel to Syria and had showed signs of being radicalized, the national police chief said on Monday.
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The young Christian leaders below are advocating to change some of those discrepancies in how churchgoers tend to view everything from the death penalty to immigration to climate change: Brandan Robertson Age: 25 Issue: LGBTQ RightsBrandan Robertson felt called to Christian ministry at age 12.
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Most presidents at least try to bring the country together at a time of national tragedy, as Bill Clinton did after the Oklahoma City bombing, George W. Bush after September 11th and Mr Obama after the murder of nine black churchgoers in South Carolina.
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How ISIS is luring so many Americans to join its ranks The FBI said agents began watching Rayyan last May after learning he had made threats to others about committing acts of terror, including killing churchgoers, in the name of ISIS, the complaint said.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A Frenchman who killed a police commander and his partner this week was seen in a van with a man involved in an aborted attack on churchgoers in the Paris suburb of Villejuif, a source close to the investigation said on Friday.
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A federal judge granted Dylann Storm Roof's request to represent himself in his capital trial on charges of killing nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. That means the avowed white supremacist could cross-examine survivors of the massacre and family members of the dead.
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Nor was it unusual for black liquor salesmen—many of them firmly ensconced in the middle class—to enjoy renown within the community that paralleled that of the neighborhood hustlers and entrepreneurs who supplied wine to rent parties and Saturday-partiers-turned-Sunday-churchgoers.
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They appear separately to ruminate and ramble on topics that have made devastating headlines in recent years, including the 2015 death of Freddie Gray at the hands of Baltimore police officers and the slaughter of African-American churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., that same year.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dylann S. Roof, the unrepentant and inscrutable white supremacist who killed nine African-American churchgoers in a brazen racial rampage almost 19 months ago, an outburst of extremist violence that shocked the nation, was condemned to death by a federal jury on Tuesday.
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Like parents in many other places across the country, every Sunday I walk my sons to religious school, past the regular churchgoers streaming into or out of morning services at Blacksburg United Methodist and Christ Episcopal, past the casually dressed ushers outside the River Church.
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A second hearing to determine Dylann Roof's mental competency was held behind closed doors on Monday, one day before jurors will return to court to decide whether the self-avowed white supremacist should face the death penalty for murdering nine black churchgoers in June 2015.
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Conversation WITH the protests in Ferguson, Mo., the Black Lives Matter movement and the massacre of black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., on their minds, the presidents of the nation's two major Baptist groups — one predominantly white, one predominantly black — decided it was time for a bold gesture.
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I shouldn't have to tell you that the man who burned down those Louisiana churches is a terrorist, or that the Charlottesville killer is a terrorist, or that the men who massacred black churchgoers in Charleston or Jewish people at prayer in Pittsburgh and Poway are terrorists.
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Trump's firm support from evangelicals is made clear in this recent Washington Post article in which Alabama churchgoers told reporter Stephanie McCrummen that Trump was "being molded by God for the role" of president to ensure a more important goal: "the survival of the Christian nation."
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Yet a new survey by Pew Research, a polling organisation based in Washington, DC, suggests that Christianity still matters to a plurality of west Europeans, as a marker of identity and a shaper of attitudes, even if active churchgoers and committed believers are a small minority.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Seventy-four days separated the fatal bursts of gunfire: the eight rounds a white police officer fired at Walter L. Scott, a black man in North Charleston, and then the shots that killed nine black churchgoers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church here.
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Last year, for example, a federal jury condemned the white supremacist Dylann S. Roof to death for killing nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. But in 2015, a Colorado jury spared the life of James E. Holmes, who killed 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora.
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As of yet, there's little evidence of Buttigieg breaking through among nonwhite voters — and, notably, nonwhite voters aren't as sorted by the openness dimension between the parties, so the messages that work for white liberals in New Hampshire often fall flat with black churchgoers in South Carolina.
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After a white supremacist massacred nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., in 2015, Nikki Haley — then the state's governor, and now Mr. Trump's United Nations ambassador — recognized the cruel symbolism of the Confederate flag flying at the State House and agreed to pull it down.
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WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas — Midway through a Sunday church service in the suburbs of Fort Worth, an all-too-familiar scene began to unfold: A man in a trench coat rose from the pews, pulled out a shotgun and opened fire, prompting terrified churchgoers to dive for cover.
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Editorial Two years after nine churchgoers were shot to death in a horrific gun spree in Charleston, S.C., tone-deaf state lawmakers are considering a measure to allow South Carolina residents to carry guns — openly or concealed — without the need to obtain a state weapons permit.
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The school's sale of the protective shield comes after a series of deadly mass shootings in the U.S. On Sunday, a gunman identified as Devin Kelley opened fire at churchgoers attending a Sunday service in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in what has become the state's deadliest mass shooting.
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CARITA, Indonesia (Reuters) - It was a solemn Christmas for the congregation in Indonesia's Carita, a seaside town left reeling from the tsunami that has killed over 400 people and devastated the western coast of Java, as many churchgoers have fled the area for fear of further disasters.
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If he was sincere about healing divisions, he could have worshiped at Mother Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, where a man who police said wanted to start a race war admitted killing nine churchgoers, including the pastor -- my friend and state senator Clementa Pinckney -- and talked about racial reconciliation.
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Mass shootings are becoming more deadly across the US.They're so worrisome that veteran kidnapping expert and hostage negotiator Billy Jensen has started teaching classes to churchgoers and doomsday preppers about how to prevent mass shootings, and what to do if one happens where they live, work, shop, or pray.
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Few American churchgoers have heard endorsements from the pulpit in the past few months of this contentious presidential race, but when clergy members did speak out in church, far more favored Hillary Clinton than Donald J. Trump, according to a survey released on Monday by the Pew Research Center.
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In that span of time, I had stepped inside two churches for three funerals, but as my mother and most faithful churchgoers will promptly make clear, simply stepping into the house of the Lord isn't the same thing as attending mass or truly engaging in praise and worship.
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"Prosecutors have got a duty not to be caught up in hysteria," said William N. Nettles, who was the United States attorney in South Carolina when a white supremacist killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston in 2015 and successfully prosecuted a man who had withheld information about that attack.
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The churchgoers who ultimately voted for Trump over Clinton still tend to hold different views than his more secular supporters, and the more religious part of the G.O.P. is still the less Trumpist portion — meaning less populist on economics, but also less authoritarian and tribal on race and identity.
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But the churchgoers and nonchurchgoers differ more in social capital: The irreligious are less likely to have college degrees, less likely to be married and more likely to be divorced; they're also less civically engaged, less satisfied with their neighborhoods and communities, and less trusting and optimistic in general.
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The KCDC believe that a 61-year-old member of the sect, known as "Patient 31," triggered a "superspreader" event at the church's Daegu branch after refusing to be tested in hospital despite presenting symptoms, and coming into close contact with over 1,000 churchgoers at several tightly packed services.
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Sessions had directed the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in November to conduct a comprehensive review of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in the wake of the shooting of churchgoers in Sutherland Springs, Texas, and to recommend changes within 60 days.
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Federal officials said that they arrested a South Carolina man this week after he bought a handgun from an undercover agent and told the agent that he wanted to commit an attack inspired by Dylann S. Roof, the avowed white supremacist who killed nine black churchgoers in June 2015.
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But Christianity won a point for censorship this week, when outraged churchgoers compelled the removal of a £12,000 (~$16,700) sculpture by British artist Ryan Callanan from a charity auction inside the historic St. Stephen Walbrook church in central London, because it depicted a life-sized Stormtrooper being crucified.
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Before she became one of the nine churchgoers killed by Dylann Roof in Charleston, before she became one of the 475 people killed in one of the 372 American mass shooting incidents of 2015, Cynthia was the matriarch of her family, a dedicated librarian for 31 years, and a giggly gossip.
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The bulk of his Columbia photos were captured in the months before the 2016 election of President Trump, and they depict a wide range of subjects, from field workers in Maine to churchgoers in Tennessee to a drag queen in Washington, D.C. The name Columbia had a dual appeal for Smith.
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Since 212, hate-fueled shootings targeting black churchgoers in Charleston, Jews at synagogues in Pittsburgh and Poway, women at a yoga studio in Tallahassee, and Latinos at a Walmart in El Paso, have dominated national headlines and added another layer of complexity to the problem of mass violence in America.
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Clinton is relying on black churchgoers, a key constituency in her primary victory earlier this year, and Mr. Trump has consolidated support among white evangelicals thanks to a determined courtship, a pledge to appoint conservative judges and their fear of four more years of a Democrat in the White House.
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After Dylann Roof killed nine churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, federal officials found that he should have been prohibited from buying the gun he used in that crime: Three months earlier, Roof had confessed to misdemeanor illegal possession of drugs, specifically Suboxone, a prescription pharmaceutical used to manage opioid addictions.
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The gunman in Friday's attack identified himself in since-deleted social media posts as a white supremacist, posting a lengthy manifesto in which he employed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric and praised white nationalist figures such as Dylann Roof, who killed nine African-American churchgoers in South Carolina in 2015.
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Roof also lays out a list of churches and his "selection of victims," describing the defendant's "decision making and specific choice to target churchgoers attending Bible study in order to magnify the societal impact of his crimes," said the filings released Monday, which did not disclose the specific contents of the documents.
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The vote to move his statue came during a national wave of efforts to remove symbols of the Confederacy from public spaces after the killings of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. The man charged with murder in those deaths was found to have posed in a photo with a Confederate flag.
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Less than a week after a racist gunman named Dylann Roof fatally shot nine black churchgoers at the congregants at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, newly-announced presidential candidate Hillary Clinton delivered a speech on gun violence and race relations, embracing gun control as a central feature of her presidential campaign.
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On Sunday, the Beijing Chaoyang district civil affairs bureau said that by organizing events without registering, the church was breaking rules forbidding mass gatherings and were now "legally banned" and its "illegal promotional material" had been confiscated, according to images of the notice sent to Reuters late on Sunday and confirmed by churchgoers.
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San Francisco may be an internationally recognized icon, but it is also a working parish, and every day for the past two weeks, teams of churchgoers and dedicated non-parishioners have come together to contribute their skills and labor to the church's annual enjarre — the reapplication of the adobe structure's mud coat.
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A group of churchgoers turned their backs on Democratic presidential candidate Michael BloombergMichael BloombergBiden surge calms Democratic jitters The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden riding wave of momentum after stunning Super Tuesday Delegate battle ahead likely favors Biden MORE as he spoke at Brown Chapel AME Church, a historic black church in Selma, Ala.
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While Sorbo, Cameron, and the Kendrick Brothers have continued to make films that primarily aim at converting non-believers and empowering the faithful, many Hollywood studios have found ways of turning down the theological volume on their movies enough to entice secular audiences, while still appealing to churchgoers looking for a family-friendly movie.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Seeming to abdicate one of his last chances to save his own life, the convicted killer Dylann S. Roof stood on Wednesday before the jurors who will decide his fate and offered no apology, no explanation and no remorse for massacring nine black churchgoers during a Bible study session in June 216.
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Read more: How to stop shootings in America: 10 strategies proposed to stop gun violence, and how likely they are to workDATA NOT UPDATED: SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, TEXAS, CHURCHThe man who killed more than two dozen churchgoers in 2017 in Sutherland Springs, Texas, was able to purchase guns because his past criminal record was not submitted to the FBI database.
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He left a note in his car about a 2015 shooting massacre by the white supremacist, Dylann S. Roof, at a South Carolina black church that left nine dead, and said that he planned to kill at least 10 white churchgoers in revenge, the deputy district attorney, Amy Hunter, said during the trial, The Associated Press reported.
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When prosecutors traced the route that Dylann Roof, the white man who shot and killed nine black churchgoers at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston in 2015, took prior to the attack, they found that he visited a Confederate museum, a Confederate soldier cemetery, a slave cemetery, and four former slave plantations, Boone Hall being one of them.
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As Ross Douthat and others have pointed out, if liberals really believed that Trump was a threat to the constitutional order or a harbinger of fascism, they would begin doing what many liberals did after the 2004 election: making rhetorical and political gestures toward conservative churchgoers in order to mollify them and win the next election.
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The report comes amid a national debate on Confederate monuments that was sparked following the 2015 mass shooting of black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. Dylann Roof, who was convicted of shooting and killing nine parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, is a self-proclaimed white supremacist who often donned a Confederate flag and says he was trying to ignite a race war.
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Unanimous jury sentences Dylann Roof to death after he showed no remorse for mass murder in South Carolina church Unanimous jury sentences Dylann Roof to death after he showed no remorse for mass murder in South Carolina church A unanimous jury sentenced Dylann Roof to death for killing nine black churchgoers as they attended Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015.
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At a court hearing last week, a Nashville detective testified that Mr. Samson had left a vague note in his car that said something to the effect of "Dylann Roof was less than nothing," referring to the white supremacist who shot and killed nine black people at a church in Charleston, S.C. Mr. Samson shot only white churchgoers during his rampage.
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Instead, in deciding how to address the modern problem of military-grade weaponry turned on school children, churchgoers and concert attendees, we should look back to the beliefs of constitutional draftsmen writing a half century before the advent of the first police department in the United States, and well over 100 years before the first semi-automatic rifle was manufactured.
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Much lip service, a few political moves here and there, but be it people of color shooting each other in the Chicagos of America or one white supremacist male after another waging a very personal war -- and domestic terrorism -- against black churchgoers in South Carolina or Latinx immigrants in Texas, violence is the solution for men and boys who feel isolated, marginalized, dissed, enraged.
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She noted that Russian trolls had created social-media posts clearly aimed at winning support for Trump from churchgoers and military families—key Republican voters who seemed likely to lack enthusiasm for a thrice-married nominee who had boasted of groping women, obtained multiple military deferments, mocked Gold Star parents and a former prisoner of war, and described the threat of venereal disease as his personal equivalent of the Vietcong.
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They were, on one hand, hard-pressed to imagine a white president saying "Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago," inviting the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the white police officer who had confronted him to a White House "beer summit," or singing "Amazing Grace" at the funeral of the pastor who was one of the nine black churchgoers gunned down in Charleston, S.C., last year.
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Judge orders another evaluation of Roof before sentencing phase of trial begins Tuesday Judge orders another evaluation of Roof before sentencing phase of trial begins Tuesday A second hearing to determine Dylann Roof's mental competency was held behind closed doors on Monday, one day before jurors will return to court to decide whether the self-avowed white supremacist should face the death penalty for murdering nine black churchgoers in June 2015.
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In a passage of agonizing beauty, she notes how far she felt she'd travelled from the religion that had infused her girlhood: Left behind by the homily and miles away from the other churchgoers, whose minds, at least from where I sat, appeared to be actively trailing the minister's words, hearing them and chuckling or murmuring, or merely nodding to themselves as the meaning sunk in, I realized I had no idea what the story was that I was part of.
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Before Dylann Roof murdered nine black churchgoers in Charleston, before Heather Heyer was killed in Charlottesville while protesting the torch-wielding "alt-right" — before, in short, everyone suddenly felt an urgent need to understand violent white racism — a Norwegian journalist named Vegas Tenold was watching neo-Nazi street fights, attending a Klan wedding and learning the best way to burn a cross (first wrap it in old clothes, then finish with a ribbon of burlap to create a flaming spiral effect).
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Miller sent McHugh information about "immigrant crime" and offered her talking points on defending Confederate iconography in the wake of the white nationalist Dylann Roof's massacre of black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. In one email, Miller recommended that Breitbart draw parallels between Pope Francis' 2015 speech before Congress, in which he called on America to welcome immigrants, and the wildly racist 1973 novel "The Camp of the Saints," in which weak-minded leftists allow soulless brown hordes to conquer the white world.
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Ernest Green, the school's first African-American graduate, described progress as having no finish line, and drew parallels between the civil rights era and the racial turbulence of today — from the nine African-American churchgoers who were slain in 2015 in Charleston, S.C., to the white supremacists who marched earlier this year in Charlottesville, Va. "Emmett Till turns to Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, protesting Nazis," Mr. Green said, comparing the victim of an infamous 1955 lynching to the young woman slain in August while protesting white supremacists.
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