Whether he was a martyr for the "Christian faith" or "American freedom", nearly every speaker at Charlie Kirk's memorial service used that word to describe the late conservative advocate.

Thousands of people — including high-profile members of the US government and US President Donald Trump — gathered in Arizona for Mr Kirk's memorial service .

It looked like a political rally as well as a religious service. A celebration of Charlie's life, but also a tussle over its meaning. There were calls for unity, while opponents were, at times, pilloried.

Tyler Bower, Kirk's friend and employee, said his boss would have been proud of how those different worlds had collided at the memorial. He said Charlie had often mused: "If we could just figure out how to bring the Holy Spirit into a Trump r

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