Obama delivers eulogy for slain preacher

US President Barack Obama has delivered the eulogy for the pastor slain with eight others in a Charleston church, ending it by singing Amazing Grace.

Barack Obama has paid homage to a black pastor killed during a mass shooting in a Charleston church.

US President Barack Obama has led an impassioned funeral service for a popular black minister and politician killed in a church massacre in the US state of South Carolina.

TOUCHING on the themes of racism, poverty and injustice that persist for African Americans in the United States, Obama said the killing of Reverend Clementa Pinckney - a personal friend - and eight others in a church was a call to grace.