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Houston (AFP) - Two people including a five-year-old boy were wounded after a woman opened fire at celebrity US pastor Joel Osteen's megachurch in Houston, Texas, one of the largest religious venues in the United States, police said Sunday. The woman was armed with a long gun when she entered the non-denominational Christian church with a child just before 2:00 pm (2000 GMT), Houston police chief Troy Finner told a press conference. Arriving at the church, housed in a converted former sports arena which can seat some 16,800 people, she began to fire, Finner said -- but off-duty police officers...
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Kahului (United States) (AFP) - In 60 years of preaching, pastor Arza Brown had never led a service in his sandals. But he had no choice on Sunday, after the wildfire that destroyed a Hawaiian town left him with nothing more than his faith and the clothes he stood up in. "I have ministered in many disasters, many fires, many things," Brown told believers huddled in a coffee shop. "And I tried to help people. "But this is the first time that I've been one of them." When a terrifying wildfire devoured Lahaina this week, it razed Brown's home and Grace Baptist Church, where he has served for the ...
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Washington (AFP) - Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the United States' largest Protestant denomination, published a 205-page list on Thursday of ministers and other church workers who have been accused of sexual abuse. The public release of the list comes days after an independent investigation said the church had for years suppressed reports of sexual abuse against priests and church staff. "This list is being made public for the first time as an initial, but important, step towards addressing the scourge of sexual abuse and implementing reform in the Convention," the SBC sa...
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Uvalde (United States) (AFP) - Ryan Ramirez fought back tears at a Wednesday vigil as he spoke of his "lovable" 10-year-old daughter Alithia, an aspiring artist who was among the 19 schoolchildren killed in a cold-blooded shooting that has devastated a tight-knit community. As mourners embraced and wept, relatives and friends of those murdered in the latest US school massacre gathered on the bleachers and on the dirt of a fairground arena in the small town of Uvalde. Some in the crowd of about 1,000 held portraits of the dead, others squeezed stuffed animals and drawings, each struggling to co...
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Wilmington (United States) (AFP) - US President-elect Joe Biden has invited top Republican and Democratic congressional leaders to a bipartisan prayer session at church early Wednesday hours before his inauguration, people familiar with the plans said. Two weeks after an unprecedented violent assault on the US Capitol by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump, and with the nation bitterly divided politically, Biden intends to attend services at St. Matthews Cathedral in Washington with the top four leaders in Congress. "Yes I can confirm" that top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell will ...
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