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Funerals for three people killed by a gunman during a church potluck dinner in Alabama will be held this week, the church's pastor said Monday.

Sunday, June 19, was Juneteenth, a day commemorating the end of slavery for Black Americans. As observation of the federal holiday continues with some employees getting Monday, June 20, off, some believers and Christian leaders are reflecting on the racial work that still needs to be done. 

On Friday, June 17, fire broke out in the 100-year-old building of a Texas church. By the time the flames were extinguished, only a cross remained standing among all the debris.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling on Florida governor Ron DeSantis to withdraw comments he made in a June 9 press conference that they say “paint the nonreligious in a deeply unfavorable light.”

Worship services are set to resume Sunday [June 19] at the Alabama church where a gunman opened fire and killed three senior citizens at a potluck dinner earlier in the week.

Making his first public appearance since the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection began its hearings, Trump lashed out at the committee as he continued to tease his plans for a third presidential run.

The 70-year-old suspected gunman in a church shooting that killed three people in Alabama sat by himself drinking liquor, rejecting offers to join the others gathered at the potluck dinner, before gunfire shattered the peace of the evening, a survivor recalled.

Prosecutors have accused a Las Vegas man of committing a hate crime by killing one person and wounding five in a mass shooting at a Taiwanese American church luncheon in California.