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On Father’s Day Sunday, faith leaders struggle for answers to Philly’s gun violence

"We think we are evolving, but we are going down," the Rev. Herb Lusk, pastor at Greater Exodus Baptist Church, said following an overnight during which eight people were shot, one fatally.

The Rev. Herb Lusk, pastor at the Greater Exodus Baptist Church, in a file photo last Easter. In a sermon on Father's Day, he decried the city's record-pace gun violence, which continued this weekend, including the shooting of a 3-year-old boy.
The Rev. Herb Lusk, pastor at the Greater Exodus Baptist Church, in a file photo last Easter. In a sermon on Father's Day, he decried the city's record-pace gun violence, which continued this weekend, including the shooting of a 3-year-old boy.Read moreMICHAEL BRYANT / Staff Photographer
    by Joseph N. DiStefano
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