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Service comes nearly a week after a deadly shooting at a Taiwanese American church congregation in Laguna Woods

The deadly shooting at a meeting of Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church members in Laguna Woods, California, on May 15 not only violated a sacred space, but also left Taiwanese Americans feeling their cultural base had been shaken. The church building was not only a place of worship, but also a place where Taiwanese language and support for a democratic Taiwan thrived. The mass shooting, committed by a man who officials say was motivated by political hatred of Taiwan, has highlighted the close connections that the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan has had with the nation’s democracy movement. J...

The toll rolls on. A gunman walks into a place where humans are peacefully gathering and slaughters them for a militantly-avowed racially-based nationalism, presented in a long manifesto. We are quickly told that the gunman was mentally ill. Obviously — who but a madman could do such a thing? The newspapers dust off one of their “education of a killer” pieces, change the names and run another 1,200 words useful only to those cultivating such killers. The latest of these attacks, on Taiwanese churchgoers in Laguna, California, has spurred much discussion of the long record of Chinese Nat...

On Saturday morning, leaders led a prayer outside the Laguna Woods Church where five of their members were shot last Sunday.

The Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church joined in prayer Saturday and thanked community members for their support