#church shooting

[sleepysera]

6.17.22 Headlines

WORLD NEWS

West Bank: Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians in gunbattle (AP)

“Israeli forces shot dead three Palestinians and wounded at least eight others early Friday during a military operation in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The military said its forces came under attack and exchanged fire with militants.”

India: One dead in violent protests over military hiring (BBC)

“A person has died and 13 others have been injured in India after protests against a new army hiring plan turned violent. He died when police and protesters clashed in Secunderabad city in the southern state of Telangana on Friday. Police reportedly opened fire into the crowd but reports said it was not clear if the man died due to a gunshot wound. Several states have seen huge protests against the plan to hire soldiers on a fixed four-year term. Protesters say the government's plan to hire temporary soldiers will reduce their chances of getting coveted permanent military jobs, which guarantee fixed salaries and pensions.”

Tanzania: Accused of violence on Maasai protesting eviction (AP)

“Tanzania’s government has been accused of using violence against Maasai herders protesting efforts to evict them from one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations, in the latest friction between those who see certain African landscapes as a lucrative playground and those who simply call them home.”

US NEWS

Alabama Church Shooting: 2 killed, 1 wounded, suspect detained (AP)

“Police investigating a shooting at an Alabama church that killed two people and wounded another said Friday that the shooter was a 71-year-old man who occasionally attended services. Police Capt. Shane Ware did not identify the suspect, who was taken into custody following the shooting Thursday night at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in the Birmingham suburb of Vestavia Hills. Ware said prosecutors were preparing warrants to charge him with capital murder.”

Covid: FDA authorizes 1st Covid-19 shots for infants, preschoolers (AP)

“U.S. regulators on Friday authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week. The Food and Drug Administration’s action follows its advisory panel’s unanimous recommendation for the shots from Moderna and Pfizer. That means U.S. kids under 5 — roughly 18 million youngsters — are eligible for the shots, about 1 1/2 years after the vaccines first became available in the U.S. for adults, who have been hit the hardest during the pandemic.”

Climate Crisis: Biden hosts climate meeting amid high gas price pressure (AP)

“Equating the oil and gas industry to Big Tobacco, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that “fossil fuel producers and financiers have humanity by the throat.” But President Joe Biden wasn’t quite itching for a fight. With both soaring energy prices and a warming planet weighing on the world at the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, Biden talked about trying to ease the pain of high gas prices while pushing more long-term green policies.”

#current events #news #west bank #israel #palestine #india #tanzania #protest #united states #church shooting #gun violence #covid #climate crisis #climate change #global warming

[qupritsuvwix]

#red flags #joel osteen #conroe texas #houston #church shooting

[argus-news]

Seven killed at church shooting in Germany

Police sounded the alarm for "extreme danger" in the area using a catastrophe warning app.

BERLIN: At least seven people have been killed as shots were fired inside a building used by Jehovah's Witnesses in the northern German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening, and several people were wounded, police said.

The first emergency calls were made around 2015 GMT after shots rang out at the building in northern Hamburg, a police spokesman at the scene said.

"Several people were seriously injured, some even fatally," police said on Twitter.

"At the moment there is no reliable information on the motive of the crime," they added, urging people not to speculate.

Police sounded the alarm for "extreme danger" in the area using a catastrophe warning app.

Residents must stay indoors and avoid the area, police said, adding that streets surrounding the building had been cordoned off.

The first police at the scene found several lifeless bodies and seriously wounded people.

"We only know that several people died here; several people are wounded, they were taken to hospitals," police spokesman Holger Vehren said of the shooting in the Gross Borstel district of Germany's second-biggest city.

He said he had no information on the severity of the injuries suffered by the wounded. Police did not confirm German media reports, which named no sources, of six or seven dead.

The scene of the shooting was the Jehovah's Witnesses' Kingdom Hall, a modern and boxy three-story building next door to an auto repair shop.

Vehren said police were alerted to the shooting at about 9:15 p.m. and were on the scene quickly. He said that after officers arrived and found people with apparent gunshot wounds on the ground floor, they heard a shot from an upper floor and found a fatally wounded person upstairs who may have been a shooter. He said police did not have to use their firearms.

Vehren said there was no indication that a shooter was on the run and that it appeared likely that the perpetrator was either in the building or among the dead.

Student Laura Bauch, who lives nearby, said "there were about four periods of shooting," German news agency dpa reported. "There were always several shots in these periods, roughly at intervals of 20 seconds to a minute."

She said she looked out her window and saw a person running from the ground floor to the second floor of the Jehovah's Witnesses hall.

Police had no information on the event that was underway in the building when the shooting took place. They also had no immediate information on a possible motive. Vehren said that "the background is still completely unclear."

Hamburg Mayor Peter Tschentscher tweeted that the news was "shocking" and offered his sympathy to the victim's relatives.

Jehovah's Witnesses are part of an international church, founded in the United States in the 19th century and headquartered in Warwick, New York. It claims a worldwide membership of about 8.7 million, with about 170,000 in Germany.

Members are known for their evangelistic efforts which include knocking on doors and distributing literature in public squares. The denomination's distinctive practices include a refusal to bear arms, receive blood transfusions, salute a national flag or participate in secular government.

Local daily Hamburger Abendblatt reported that 17 unhurt people, who had been at the event, were being attended to by the fire brigade.

Some 175,000 people in Germany, including 3,800 in Hamburg, are Jehovah's Witnesses, a US Christian movement set up in the late 19th century that preaches non-violence and is known for door-to-door evangelism.

The port city's mayor, Peter Tschentscher, expressed shock at the shooting on Twitter.

Sending his sympathies to the victims' families, he said emergency services were doing their utmost to clarify the situation.

Hit by attacks

Germany has been rocked by several attacks in recent years, both by jihadists and far-right extremists.

Among the deadliest committed by Islamist extremists was a truck rampage at a Berlin Christmas market in December 2016 that killed 12 people.

The Tunisian attacker, a failed asylum seeker, was a supporter of the Islamic State jihadist group.

Europe's most populous nation remains a target for jihadist groups in particular because of its participation in the anti-Islamic State coalition in Iraq and Syria.

Between 2013 and 2021, the number of Islamists considered dangerous in the country had multiplied by five to 615, according to interior ministry data.

But Germany has also been hit by several far-right assaults in recent years, sparking accusations that the government was not doing enough to stamp out neo-Nazi violence.

In February 2020, a far-right extremist shot dead 10 people and wounded five others in the central German city of Hanau.

And in 2019, two people were killed after a neo-Nazi tried to storm a synagogue in Halle on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.

#church shooting #Germany

[meandmybigmouth]

So!. Jesus doesn’t really save after all!

#shootings #church shooting #geneva presbyterian church

[media-bias-fact-check]

Church shooting suspect was ‘very negative,’ took issue with Taiwan and U.S. governments, acquaintances say

After the deadly shooting Sunday at a Taiwanese church in Southern California, those who interacted with suspect David Chou are sharing past interactions, trying to make sense of the tragedy. Acquaintances who had gathered with Chou, 68, several times over the years through the Taiwanese Association of Las Vegas reflected on the shooting Sunday, which killed one person and injured five other…

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#Church Shooting

[nayruwu]

Fem shinya & fem guren! & in cute clothes not those uniforms please.

bless you a thousand times for sparing me the fucking uniforms🙏🏻

i've actually been wanting to draw them again for a whiiile so thank you~

#got a tad bit carried away and spent a lot longer on this than planned #it was worth it though. my girls #yuri gureshin truthers #owari no seraph #seraph of the end #shinya hiiragi #guren ichinose #fem gureshin #art stuff #shinya looks like she goes to church every sunday (shoots people in the back) #& guren looks like a greasy sewer rat (probably bites people ((affectionate)) #it's so fun to think about what their hair would look like at different ages #like the length..... the style.......... #very boring never-changing anime guy hairstyles in canon #ANYWAY i love them

[sleepysera]

6.3.22 Headlines

WORLD NEWS

Ukraine: Russia may be in Ukraine to stay after 100 days of war (AP)

“When Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in late February, the Russian president vowed his forces would not occupy the country. But as the invasion reached its 100th day Friday, Moscow seemed increasingly unlikely to relinquish the territory it has taken in the war.”

Germany: At least 4 killed in Bavaria train crash (BBC)

“At least four people were killed and about 30 injured when a train derailed in Germany's south-eastern state of Bavaria, police say. The train, which was carrying many students, was heading to Munich when three carriages came off the tracks near Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It is unclear what caused the accident, a police spokesperson said.”

Pakistan: Taliban militants announce indefinite ceasefire with Islamabad (BBC)

“The Pakistani Taliban has announced an indefinite ceasefire with Pakistan's government after talks brokered by the Afghan Taliban government. The Pakistani Taliban (TTP) said substantial progress had been made at the talks in Kabul, and the truce extended until further notice. A Pakistani government official said the talks were moving in a positive direction, AFP news agency reports. The TTP has been fighting Pakistan's armed forces for years.”

US NEWS

Hospital Shooting: Tulsa shooting highlights vulnerability of hospitals (AP)

“The vulnerability of health care facilities was highlighted by a shooter who killed four people and then himself Wednesday at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The assailant got inside a building on the Saint Francis Hospital campus with little trouble, just hours after buying an AR-style rifle, authorities said.”

Church Shooting: Man fatally shot 2 women, self in Iowa church lot (AP)

“Authorities planned to release more details Friday about a shooting outside an Iowa church in which a man fatally shot two women before apparently killing himself. The shooting happened just before 7 p.m. Thursday in the parking lot of the Cornerstone Church, a megachurch on the outskirts of Ames. Sheriff’s Capt. Nicholas Lennie declined early Friday to give the ages and names of those killed, but confirmed that they were adults.”

Prison Escape: Police fatally shoot Texas escapee who killed 5 while on run (AP)

“A convicted murderer on the run since escaping a prison bus after stabbing its driver last month was fatally shot by law enforcement after he killed a family of five and stole a truck from a rural weekend cabin, a Texas prison system spokesman said. Gonzalo Lopez, 46, died in a shootout with police late Thursday in Jourdanton, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) south of San Antonio, after driving the pickup more than 200 miles (322 kilometers) from the cabin, said Jason Clark, spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.”

#current events #news #ukraine #russia #war #germany #bavaria #pakistan #taliban #islamabad #united states #hospital shooting #tulsa shooting #church shooting #gun violence #crime #prison escape #texas #iowa #oklahoma

[nopecho]

Maybe,,,, just maybe,,,,

#I want him to breed me SO BAD #it's been dangerous for a few days now #thank you fertility pills 💙 #I only ever allow Whitney to shoot his seed inside me #the second I get pregnant I'm getting yhe chastity belt (gotta make bank at the church) #cw pregnancy #If i feel like it i might get Eden pergenat #dol #degrees of lewdity #nopecho talks #nopecho talks 💙

[qupritsuvwix]

#nigeria #church shooting

[blenselche]

doin' some bird sketching to renew my hand's muscle memory

taking my field arts class out to the vulture barn today after church

#bird art #bird sketches #bords #tfw half of my classlist are lutherans so we gotta wait like an hour for them to finally leave #just me and 7 other women sitting around my feeders with the house finches shooting the shit until the church next door lets the others go #our pastor neighbor is so long winded its gonna be a long wait uuuuuuugh #and then my dumbass sheep are gonna try and eat someones hair BET

[johbeil]

Melancholy winter afternoon

Church of Ceri graveyard, Lazio, Italy. Leica IIIg with 50 mm Summitar on Kodak film.

#melancholy #photographers on tumblr #original photographers #Ceri #Lazio #Italy #church #graveyard #architecture #film is alive #i still shoot film #analog photography #film photography #black and white #b&w #trees #winter

[heartshapedcaskett]

Then weep not friends, I'm goin' home Up there we'll die no more No coffins will be made up there No graves on that bright shore

#my photography #photography #film photography #polaroid film #polaroid #polaroid i type #girls who shoot film #Southern Gothic #regional gothic #folk gothic #rural gothic #small town gothic #small town USA #small town america #rural photography #historic churches #southern USA #carolina gothic #low country #low country gothic #rural places #coffinwood #grandmacore #corvidcore #nostalgia #nostalgiacore #ethel cain aesthetic

[val-of-the-north]

#bloodborne #brador church assassin #I was held at gunpoint to draw either him or willem lol #luckily the gun holder was sweet enough not to shoot at me while I was sick and couldn't work on the drawing anymore #I am happy with the result #damn bitch you live like this #val-post #val-arts

[hirazuki]

I’m finally getting ready to bite the bullet and start purchasing stuff for this guy, so I sketched out a couple of different options based on what I would buy/make  to see what combination of things I liked best -- and here are the final designs I settled on for Lieutenant of Angband, Annatar, and Zigur!

Some notes, for fun:

I adore all the armored First Age designs of him I’ve seen over the years, but I’ve somehow never been able to get behind the idea of a huge painted eye on his breastplate -- even though it looks extremely badass!! I just can’t picture him wearing his own insignia while serving Melkor (and not because Melkor would not tolerate it or anything; simply out of respect for him). Like, I can see it during the three ages while Melkor was imprisoned, especially if one headcanons that he initially would have been met with some resistance to taking up leadership in the interim and had to prove his worth; but not while Melkor was in Beleriand XD

I’m always torn between plate armor and scale mail for First Age, but I think I’ve finally decided to lean towards scale mail just because he had dragons available to him; I imagine he’d absolutely take advantage of the extremely useful and precious materials at his disposal ethically harvested, of course, they were just scales that shed naturally, they are his babies after all

I know the conventional interpretation of Annatar’s hair is a very pale, bright blond (which I’m guessing Shadow of Mordor has something to do with that), but I’ve always seen him as a warmer, deeper blond, kind of like honey. My version of Annatar has always been heavily influenced by Cedric from W.I.T.C.H.

Zigur I have no deep thoughts on; it’s just my byzantine/gothic heart going WILD XD

#annatar #zigur #tolkien #silmarillion #i'm super excited about this! #... my bank account is not XD #i think i'm going to go for FA first #then annatar #zigur i really want to shoot on location in one of my family's small churches back in greece so #it's going to be some time before i can go home to visit; prob a year or more #so he's not a priority #my art #mairon #sauron #silm #hira draws tolkien