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As waves of shock rippled through America on Sept. 10, 2025, after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the sorrow of losing a "brother in Christ" was felt in the Bible Belt of the United States.

"We immediately prayed for him to make it through. But then, just kind of hearing that he had passed, there was definitely a sorrow just as a brother in Christ," Dr. Trenton Stewart, lead pastor of Foothills Church in Knoxville, Tenn., told Fox News Digital .

"[Seeing Kirk] killed essentially for [an] opinion, that just sparks something deep within our DNA. The unfairness of that, the unjustness of that — that's why we saw so many people pick up a Bible [and] go to church for the first time ever," he continued.

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