Church pays tribute to Charleston victims

In a symbolic service yesterday, the flames of nine candles, each symbolising a life taken in this month's shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in the US, were snuffed out as the victims' names were called during a ceremony hosted by the church's South African branch. Reverend Paul Kawimbe, bishop of the SA region of the African Methodist Episcopal church in Atteridgeville, Pretoria, said the nine were in the lord's house praying for mercy when evil, in the form of alleged gunman...