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Residents of Maine gather to pray and reflect, days after a mass shooting left 18 people dead
By Robert F. Bukaty, Jake Bleiberg, and David Sharp — October 30, 2023
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Investigators are still searching for a motive for the massacre, but have increasingly been focused on Robert Card’s mental health history.
Jury selection begins over 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue attack
By Peter Smith and Mark Scolforo — April 24, 2023
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The families of those killed were divided over whether the government should pursue the death penalty, but most were in favor.
Weeping in Nashville
By Scott Sauls — March 28, 2023
(RNS) — A Nashville pastor contemplates the ‘why?’ of this week’s shooting.
Pope Francis addresses abortion, mass shootings and resignation rumors
By Claire Giangravé — July 12, 2022
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a new wide-ranging interview, Pope Francis said it never occurred to him to resign so far but laid out his vision for a possible retirement.
Faith leaders attend White House celebration of gun control law
By Adelle M. Banks and Jack Jenkins — July 11, 2022
(RNS) — 'Neighborhoods and streets have been turned into killing fields as well,' said President Joe Biden. 'Will we match thoughts and prayers with action? I say yes.'
Texas faith leaders accompany Uvalde community, decry gun culture after school rampage
By Alejandra Molina — May 25, 2022
(RNS) — ‘What happened yesterday is one more expression of how we leaders have failed,’ San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller said.
Gilroy, El Paso, Dayton, and the normalization of violence
By Thomas Reese — August 4, 2019
(RNS) — Others may soon respond to mass shootings by ignoring it. No matter how horrible something is, if it is repeated time and time again, we get accustomed to it.
Lutheran school in Thousand Oaks learns how to grieve after losing one of its own
By Cathleen Falsani — November 9, 2018
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Like any of the mass shootings that have become near-daily trauma to the American psyche, the massacre here happened in precisely the kind of place such things aren’t meant to happen.
Two Sundays, two mass shootings: Why do bad things happen to good people?
By Holly Meyer — October 8, 2017
(USA Today) — After a succession of bewildering violence, questions arise: Why does evil exist? Why didn't God intervene?
Terrorism, race, religion: Defining the Las Vegas shooting
By The Associated Press — October 3, 2017
(AP) — The mass shooting in Las Vegas is the deadliest in modern U.S. history, but is it terrorism?
The gospel for gun-loving Christians
By Jonathan Merritt — October 3, 2017
How exactly can someone do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly while carrying a deadly assault rifle? asks David Gringor in a commentary.
After Las Vegas mass shooting, calls for prayer, action on gun control
By Adelle M. Banks — October 2, 2017
(RNS) — In the tragedy's wake, when so many grasp for words, religious leaders speak.
Jury selection enters final phase in Charleston church shooting
By Jerome Socolovsky — November 7, 2016
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) The final phase of jury selection begins in the U.S. death penalty trial for a white man charged with federal hate crimes after the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a historic South Carolina church last year.
Jury selection begins in US case against Charleston church shooter
By RNS staff — September 26, 2016
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) Dylann Roof faces 33 counts of hate crimes, obstruction of religion and firearms charges in the shooting deaths of nine parishioners during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
FBI questions member of Orlando gunman’s mosque
By Jerome Socolovsky — June 18, 2016
ORLANDO, Fla./FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- FBI agents on Friday questioned a member of the Florida mosque attended by Omar Mateen, the man who shot 49 people to death at a gay nightclub, as new information surfaced revealing the killer had exhibited chronic behavioral problems during his youth.
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