Emanuel AME
Homeland Security appoints a new 25-member security faith advisory council
By Yonat Shimron — September 20, 2022
(RNS) — The council, consisting of clergy from Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh faiths, will assist the department in evaluating the effectiveness of security-related programs.
Faith and civil rights groups ask for FBI meeting on white nationalism
By Jack Jenkins — March 28, 2019
(RNS) — 'Our communities must go to their houses of worship every week knowing that they are a target, and the FBI won't even give us the time to hear our concerns,' said Farhana Khera, executive director of Muslim Advocates.
Southern Baptists: ‘Discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag’
By Adelle M. Banks — June 14, 2016
(RNS) Baptists considered the resolution almost a year after nine people were gunned down at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., by an alleged killer who posed for photos with the rebel flag.
National Cathedral to remove Confederate flag images
By Adelle M. Banks — June 8, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) Cathedral officials acknowledged that there are intense feelings about the best way to handle the controversial windows.
Family members showed Dylann Roof mercy. Why can’t prosecutors?
By Shane Claiborne — May 26, 2016
(RNS) Can we, as a nation, do better than killing those who kill in order to show that killing is wrong?
Will Southern Baptists back Russell Moore’s call to remove Confederate flag?
By Adelle M. Banks — June 22, 2015
(RNS) Some say Moore’s call is a marker of a changing ethos within the nation’s largest Protestant denomination as conservative Christians join in mourning the “Emanuel Nine.” Others wonder if the divide over the flag remains.
Emanuel AME Church: the latest victim of violence against black churches
By Adelle M. Banks — June 18, 2015
(RNS) For many African-Americans, the church massacre is not random. It has historic dimensions.
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