Religion and Politics

South Carolina Church Fire: Mt. Zion AME Burns in Greeleyville

CNN’s Ben Brumfield, Sam Stringer, and Ashley Fantz report, “With grief and shock from the racist killings in a Charleston church still fresh, a predominantly black house of worship in another South Carolina town burned down late Tuesday.” The FBI and the ATF are jointly investigating the fire, whose cause is still unknown. Since the murders at Charleston’s Emmanuel AME church on June 17, “at least six black churches have burned in the southeastern United States,” Brumfield, Stringer, and Fantz write.

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