Former Roman Catholic Bishop Edward Daly, who tended victims of Northern Ireland’s Bloody Sunday killings and became a defining image of the massacre, has died aged 82.
CHR Comment: The article also notes that Daly stated in his memoir that Roman Catholic priests should be allowed to marry.
Source: Edward Daly, priest in famed Bloody Sunday image, dies at 82 – The Washington Post
British police on Tuesday said they had arrested a former soldier for the Bloody Sunday killings in Londonderry in 1972, one of the worst atrocities in Northern Ireland’s three decades of unrest.
CHR Comment: There is apparently no statute of limitations on this case since the events took place 43 years ago. Given the math, the former soldier arrested was 23 years old when the shooting took place. One wonders why it has take so long to provide a substantive investigation of the event, which resulted in the deaths of 13 Catholic protesters.
Source: Ex-soldier is first arrest in N.Ireland Bloody Sunday probe
Brief mentions of the role played by Christian leaders in supporting civil rights and opposing the violence of Bloody Sunday.
Selma Civil Rights March 50th Anniversary | March 6, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS.
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