Almost 1,000 people braved the winter cold to attend the July 25, 1993, Sunday evening service of St. James Church in Cape Town, South Africa. As a young duo began a worship song, the rear sanctuary doors were flung open, and Pastor Ross Anderson heard what he first thought was the pop of firecrackers. Quickly realizing two men at the back of the sanctuary were firing guns into the crowd, he shouted, “Get down,” as congregants dove under pews.
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