'You can still feel the pain and the hurt. ... Their mothers and their fathers are still buried in the back because you're talking about 145 years of history.' -Rev. Gerald Toussaint on the sense of loss experienced by his congregation in the wake of arson
Updated 1339 GMT April 11, 2019Opelousas, Louisiana
Members of the congregation had started to gather outside. Some cried. As Rev. Harry Richard watched his small church burn, one member suggested they do the only thing they could: pray.So they formed a semi-circle on the side of the road and locked arms."As I began to pray, I heard God say, 'pray for that individual or whomever did this,'" Richard said. Smoke billowed. Flames glowed in the church, beyond its archway.
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