More than a hundred firefighters responded to the scene around 3 a.m. Sunday as the fire quickly reached two alarms.
Multiple people were shot Sunday at the Church of Latter Day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan, police said.
People nearby say they smelled smoke and ran outside to find the community church engulfed in flames.
Smoke poured from the windows of a historic North Philadelphia church as firefighters went to work on dousing the flames inside the building.
Despite their best efforts, firefighters were unable to save the United Missionary Baptist Church.
Faith leaders of Revelation Church of God, one of three congregations that worship inside the Faith Tabernacle House of Prayer, looked on as firefighters doused burning embers inside the now-destroyed tabernacle.