MONTGOMERY - The lay council of the worldwide African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church will meet at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel at the Convention Center, July 27- Aug. 1.

Bibles and white tablecloths, as well as the bodies of victims and pools of blood, appear in photos of the Emanuel AME Church basement presented by prosecutors Thursday in Charleston, S.C.

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - It was an emotional day for jurors as they were shown graphic images of the Emanuel AME Church shooting scene during testimony in the federal trial of 22-year-old Dylann Roof.

"I heard every shot. every single shot." For the first time we're hearing from the survivors of the Emanuel AME church shooting that happened in Charleston in June when nine people were murdered.

The casket holding Ethel Lance, who was killed during the shooting at Emanuel AME Church, is on view before her funeral at the Royal Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston, S.C., on Thursday.

Wednesday, the NAACP and AME Lay Organization discussed moving on since the shooting at Emanuel AME as part of the AME conference in North Charleston. The President of the AME Church Lay Organization ...

The organized lay of the church is all non-clergy members. In the AME Church, the 7th Episcopal District comprises the state of SC. SC is broken down into 6 regional bodies called Annual Conferences.

Biden is traveling to Charleston, S.C., to deliver remarks at Mother Emanuel AME Church, where nine worshippers were killed in a mass shooting by a white supremacist in 2015. (AP Photo/Stephanie ...