evidence: Social media posts in Africa recently claimed that an American church was razed to the ground after it was struck by lightning during a gay wedding. The claim is misleading: while the church completely burnt down, and investigators believed the fire was caused by lightning, there was no ceremony going on at the time and no deaths were recorded. "Fire gutted a church in Boston on 3rd June as two famous homosexuals were getting married. Suddenly a powerful lightning struck this church which immediately caught uncontrollable fire despite having lightning conductors," reads a Facebook post shared on June 10, 2023. [...] Using the InVID-WeVerify video verification tool, AFP Fact Check found that the footage was first posted on Twitter on June 2, 2023 by American journalist Jason Law (archived here).Law said the video showed the First Congregational Church of Spencer burning. The church is in Spencer, Massachusetts, and not Boston, as claimed.