skip to contentAdvertisementErika, in her speech, described the shock and anguish she felt when she saw her husband in the hospital after he was shot dead in Utah.By: Express Web Desk September 22, 2025 06:23 AM IST First published on: Sep 22, 2025 at 06:23 AM IST ShareWhatsapptwitterFacebookErika Kirk wipes a tear from her eye as she speaks at a memorial for her late husband conservative activist Charlie Kirk, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo)In an emotional speech at the memorial service and funeral for conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Arizona, his widow Erika Kirk paid tribute to the life and legacy of her late husband and pledged in front of over 63,000 crowd to keep his movement alive. Erika said more than anything, “Charlie wanted to do God’s will.”The memorial service, which took place at State Farm Stadium outside Phoenix, saw a blend of politics and religion on Sunday as powerful voices of America gathered to bid adieu the 31-year-old Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated during an event at a Utah university on September 10.Erika received a standing ovation from the crowd as she announced that she forgives the alleged person who killed her husband. “That man, that young man, I forgive him. I forgive him because it was what Christ did and it is what Charlie would do,” Eriak said, quoting Jesus on the cross by saying: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”If you watch one thing today, let it be this — the truly remarkable display of grace and compassion from Mrs. Erika Kirk as she forgives her husband's assassin because that's what Christ would do.We love you, Erika. pic.twitter.com/EsSUgeJx1F— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 21, 2025Erika, in her speech, described the shock and anguish she felt when she saw her husband in the hospital after he was shot dead in Utah, but she added that she felt an overwhelming sense of comfort with the fact that Charlie did not suffer.Charlie Kirk was a hero to this country and a faithful servant of God.Every day that we continue his mission is an honor to his memory.We've got it from here, my friend. pic.twitter.com/Bh7NnEwsX4— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 22, 2025“I arrived at a Utah hospital to do the unthinkable: to look directly at my husband’s murdered body. I saw the wound that ended his life. I felt shock, I felt horror and a level of heartache that I didn’t even know existed,” Erika said.Describing Charlie’s greatest cause, Erika noted that her husband’s greatest cause was the efforts to revive the American family under conservative Christian values. She said Charlie “died with incomplete work, but not with unfinished business”.Erika said she was honoured to be named the CEO of Turning Point USA, the organization her husband co-founded and she vowed to add thousands of new chapters in it and announced that campus events, which Charlie had initiated, would continue.(with inputs from CNN, The Guardian)AdvertisementTop story1Pakistan Defence Minister’s bombshell: If need be, our nuclear programme can be given to the Saudis2Canada, UK and Australia formally recognise a Palestinian state3‘Firm approved 5,189 H-1B visas, laid off 16,000 Americans’: White House defends fee hike as move to ‘protect US jobs’4As Trump raises fee, top 10 US companies sponsoring most H-1B visas, TCS ranks 25Trump claims credit for India-Pakistan ceasefire again, says he deserves Nobel Prize for ‘ending seven wars’AdvertisementLoading Taboola...