Missionary Slain By Colo. Gunman Is Remembered
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CHISHOLM, Minn., Dec. 15 -- Tiffany Johnson had traveled to Egypt, Libya and South Africa in her work as a Christian missionary. But on Saturday, she was back home in northern Minnesota, remembered as a young woman who had been impossible not to love.
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Gordon Hinckley, the longtime head of the Mormon Church who died Sunday, had much to do with moving Mormonism closer to the mainstream
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Gordon B. Hinckley was remembered as a "prophet to the people" on Saturday as tens of thousands of faithful Mormons gathered to say goodbye to the church's longtime president.
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Relatives of an innocent Brazilian man slain by police who mistook him for a terrorist marked the first anniversary of his death Saturday with a memorial service at the Underground station where he was killed.
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The gunman who shot and killed a high school student after holding her and five others hostage had asked for students by name, a Colorado police chief said today. All six girls were molested by Duane Morrison, Park County Sheriff Fred Wegener said. Investigators are checking rumors Morrison may have researched his victims by looking at MySpace.com.
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Sister Leonella Sgorbati, who was slain outside a hospital where she worked as a missionary in Somalia's restive capital, was remembered Thursday as a devoted nun who was willing to die to help the starving and sick in Africa.
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U.S. evangelist Jerry Falwell has been laid to rest but it is premature to write the political obituary of the conservative Christian movement he once led.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Thousands of mourners filed past the coffin of former dictator Augusto Pinochet on Monday, praying, crying and paying their respects to a man who divides Chilean public opinion in death as he did in life.
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TALOVICI, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Relatives of the Bosnian teen who shot and killed five people in a Salt Lake City mall said the boy's early life was marked by war and upheaval: The family fled Serb forces on foot when he was 4 and his grandfather was killed in the war.
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The surviving astronauts of the Mercury 7 offered tribute Friday to compatriot Gordon &quot;Gordo&quot; Cooper, who died Oct. 4. At a memorial gathering at Johnson Space Center in Houston, former US Sen.
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BELEM, Brazil  - A 74-year-old American nun was  shot to death early on Saturday in Brazil's Amazon jungle,  where she worked for decades to defend peasant farmers and the  rain forest from illegal loggers and ranchers.
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There were tears and tributes as hundreds of people gathered at a church in Athens, Georgia, Friday to remember Meredith Emerson -- the young hiker who whose body was found Monday.
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MURDERED Iraq hostage Ken Bigley was remembered yesterday at a memorial service attended by family, friends and senior politicians.
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Photojournalist Eddie Adams took careful portraits of U.S. presidents and world figures. But his best known work is one that was sudden and unglamorous: the 1968 killing of a Viet Cong captive in Vietnam.
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The family of a young man who went on a deadly shooting rampage in two Colorado religious centers before killing himself said Wednesday that they are "groping for answers" and praying for the victims' families.
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An 11-year-old boy accidentally slain in a headline-grabbing shooting was remembered Saturday by the players and fans of the soccer team he dreamed of someday joining.
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BAILEY, Colo., Sept. 27 -- A gunman took six girls hostage at the high school in this mountain town Wednesday, using them as human shields for hours before he shot and fatally wounded a girl, then killed himself as a SWAT team moved in, authorities said.