How pastors are approaching Sunday services after Charleston shooting

ABC NEWS
By Meghan Keneally

Police tape surrounds the parking lot behind the AME Emanuel Church Friday as FBI forensic experts work the crime scene where nine people were murdered during bible study

Pastors at churches across the country are preparing for their Sunday services amid piqued security concerns after nine people were killed at a African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, this week. While one pastor at an AME church near Washington, D.C. told his congregation to close the doors on anyone who they did not know or could not provide identification, many leaders further south have chosen to embrace their longstanding acceptance of strangers. [link]

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A photo from a white supremacist website showing Dylann Roof, the suspect in the Charleston, S.C., church shooting.

Parishioners applaud during a memorial service at Morris Brown AME Church for the people killed Wednesday during a prayer meeting inside a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., June 18, 2015.

A drawing by a classmate of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, S.C.

A young girl attends a sidewalk memorial to the shooting victims in front of Emanuel AME Church, Friday, June 19, 2015, in Charleston, S.C.