By Ryan Sit and Rich Schapiro Heaven help this church. The pastor of the destroyed Spanish Christian Church, which lost at least five parishioners in the Harlem blast, struggled for words after surveying the scorched site. “I have no words to explain how I feel, but I know that everything is in God’s hands,” said…
By Jeremy Weber One of two buildings destroyed by an explosion today northeast of Manhattan’s Central Park not only housed a longstanding Hispanic evangelical church—it also reportedly housed one-third of the congregation. So reports The Huffington Post as more details emerge behind the natural gas accident in New York City’s East Harlem neighborhood that has…
By Susie Turner Christian Solidarity Worldwide is calling for “decisive action” after the deadly bombing of a cathedral in Arusha, Tanzania, on Sunday. The explosion happened during an inaugural Mass at the cathedral, killing three people and injuring more than 60. The Vatican’s ambassador to Tanzania, Archbishop Francisco Montecillo Padilla, and the Archbishop of Arusha,…
ASSIST News Service Fear and grief rocked a predominantly Christian area of northern Tanzania on Sunday after an unidentified man reportedly hurled an explosive device at the inaugural Mass of a new church building, killing two worshippers. The Vatican ambassador to Tanzania, Archbishop Francisco Montecillo Padilla, was in attendance as Mass was about to be…
By Rick Rojas WEST, Texas — The crowd that had gathered — lighting candles, offering prayers, crying as they tightly embraced family and friends — had streamed from the dimly lighted sanctuary of Assumption Catholic Church, but Kelly Nelson lingered behind. “The people who we lost, these are people I know, I see on a…
By Bobby Ross Jr. Donald Adair, a Church of Christ elder and owner of the West, Texas, fertilizer facility that caught fire and exploded Wednesday night, says his heart is “broken with grief for the tragic losses to so many families in our community.” “My family and I can’t express enough our deep appreciation for…
The destruction caused by the deadly explosion at a fertilizer company in a Texas town is obvious. People were killed, many others injured, and homes and buildings were damaged extensively by a blast comparable to a magnitude 2.1 earthquake. And while the situation in West, Texas, certainly appears bleak because of the tragic circumstances that…
People in the town of West, Texas, are trying to recover from a massive blast at a fertilizer plant Wednesday that resulted in fatalities, scores of injuries and heavy damage to homes and buildings in the surrounding area, and churches are doing their part to help. Firefighters responded around 6:30 p.m. April 17 to battle…