Bible study urges focus on God as shooting anniversary nears

Sunday’s massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the worst mass shooting in America’s history, occurred about a year after nine people were killed during a prayer meeting in Charleston.

“We want people to know we are there”, he said. Democrats on Capitol Hill also plan to make gun violence a campaign issue, casting Republicans as enemies of public safety and beholden to the National Rifle Association. I know the horror that it brings to families, to individuals, to a community.

A weeks-long death penalty trial typically is less taxing on jurors when they are closer to home and their loved ones, experts have said.

Almost one year after the shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church, a local pastor led the same bible study his wife was teaching when she was killed.

Clark spent Monday morning at the First Unitarian Church Orlando, where grief counselors were available for people impacted by the weekend shooting.

Clark’s prayer symbolically linked the two national tragedies.

“She’s a perfectionist, that’s just the way she is”, he said.

Clark warned that Americans are passing a world to their children and grandchildren that is divisive and breeds hate. The anniversary of that shooting is Friday. Clark said she would be back home for the start of those events.

She said as members of the congregations ride the elevator the victims are riding in their hearts.

Emma Dumain is The Post and Courier’s Washington correspondent.