Sutherland Springs massacre
Judge: Air Force mostly at fault in 2017 Texas church attack
By Paul J. Weber — July 8, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge wrote in a ruling signed Wednesday that the Air Force was ‘60% responsible’ for the massacre at First Baptist Church.
Churches arm, train congregants in wake of mass shootings
By Jake Bleiberg — August 19, 2019
(AP) — "Ten years ago, this industry was not a thing," said David Riggall, a Texas police officer whose company trains churchgoers to volunteer as security guards.
Texas church opens new sanctuary 18 months after massacre
By Clarice Silber — May 20, 2019
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — A South Texas church unveiled a new sanctuary a year and a half after a gunman killed more than two dozen congregants in the deadliest mass shooting in state history.
Lawsuit: Government negligent in Texas church massacre
By Yonat Shimron — June 10, 2018
DALLAS (AP) — The suit, filed in federal court in San Antonio, alleges the the military failed to enter the information into a database used to conduct background checks of gun buyers.
2 arrested after claiming Texas church shooting was fiction
By Associated Press — March 6, 2018
(AP) — Pastor Frank Pomeroy, whose 14-year-old daughter died in the Nov. 5 shooting, says they claimed his daughter never existed and demanded to see her birth certificate.
Pence tells grieving town ‘Faith is stronger than evil’
By Kimberly Winston — November 9, 2017
FLORESVILLE, Texas (RNS) — The memorial service, held in a neighboring town of Sutherland Springs, followed Christian tradition and was replete with Bible readings and prayers to Jesus.
Texas church to be demolished, like other mass killing sites before it
By Yonat Shimron — November 8, 2017
(RNS) — In what is becoming a grim tradition, many mass shooting sites are demolished and then rebuilt. But some churches that have experienced horrific killings have sought to reclaim the existing sacred spaces.
Trump’s neo-Puritan theology of us and them
By Mark Silk — November 6, 2017
Up to and including the massacre in Sutherland Springs.
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