Christine Byers
Christine Byers is an author at Religion News Service.
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Suspect charged with setting two in the string of seven St. Louis area church fires
By Christine Byers — October 31, 2015
ST. LOUIS — Although the locations of the fires in predominantly African-American neighborhoods gave rise to speculation that the motive might be race-related, the suspect is black.
St. Louis police investigate possible racial motive in string of fires at black churches
By Christine Byers — October 21, 2015
ST. LOUIS — Investigators have yet to confirm that race was the motive. If race or religion proves to be the reason, police will seek to have the incidents prosecuted as hate crimes.
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