Aurora
Don’t romanticize suffering following the Aurora mass shooting
Donald Trump’s jihad on Muslims
Obama meets victims, renews call for gun control
Poll: Religious groups divided on gun control, but united against guns in churches
WASHINGTON (RNS) A new poll from the Public Religion Research Institute and Religion News Service finds that Americans are generally divided about gun control, but certain religious groups are far from ambivalent. By Lauren Markoe.
Counter-protesters targeting Westboro Baptist Church
(RNS) Thousands of people wearing red shirts gathered in downtown Columbia, Mo., in response to word of a planned protest by the Kansas-based group Westboro Baptist Church. By Kellie Kotraba.
Aurora worshippers seek solace, guidance after movie theater shooting
AURORA, Colo. (RNS) Worshippers in this city rocked by Friday's mass shooting flocked to church Sunday, seeking solace within their faith communities.
What goes through our hearts at the sight of a murderer?
As I kept watching my own emotions come and go, I wondered:
what am I experiencing as I see the first live images of this killer?
What goes through my own heart?
Is it Anger?
Is it Pity?
Is it Compassion?
Is gun control a religious issue?
(RNS) After Friday's deadly shootings in Colorado, religious leaders called for stricter gun control. But is gun control a "religious" issue? By David Gibson.
First (religious) response to the insane shooting in Colorado
There are difficult questions to be asked about this senseless act of violence, and we will ask those questions later. For now, let us mourn, let us pray, let our hearts be shattered for now.