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  Sep 12, 2024

  Pastor Greg Locke says family won’t return home after drive-by shooting

  Controversial Tennessee Pastor Greg Locke says he and his family will not be returning to their home following a "surreal" drive-by shooting in which gunmen riddled his house and truck with 60 bullets in less than three seconds just over a week ago.

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  Sep 12, 2024

  Pastor, father of 11, Baptist college exec. fatally shoots himself after accusation of child molestation

  David Baker Sr., a Tennessee pastor and father of 11, who served as vice president of Independent Baptist Online College, walked into a local hospital Wednesday and fatally shot himself a day after he was charged with aggravated sexual battery of a minor family member.

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  Sep 11, 2024

  Robert Morris’ son, James Morris, names new house of worship Passage Church

  James Morris, the son of disgraced Gateway Church founder Robert Morris in Southlake, Texas, has announced that the new church he intends to plant will be called Passage Church.

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  Sep 11, 2024

  23 years after 9/11, pastor who served at Ground Zero explains why it’s important to remember

  For the last 40 years, Pastor Mickey Stonier, has been helping to care for victims of trauma and he will never forget his time serving at Ground Zero in New York City as a member of a disaster response team in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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  Sep 10, 2024

  Pastor who went to Vegas to save daughter found with drugs, guns in hotel room

  David McGee, the founder of Cross the Bridge Ministries in North Carolina who told his followers that he was going to Las Vegas, Nevada, to rescue his only daughter from the infamous tunnels below that city, recently triggered a counterterrorism response from local authorities after he was found with drugs and guns in his hotel room.

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  Sep 9, 2024

  Windsor Village Church celebrates early prison release of former pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell

  When her husband, Kirbyjon Caldwell, who formerly led the 14,000 member Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Texas, began his six year prison term in June 2021 for defrauding members of his church and other investors, Suzette Caldwell, the church’s current senior pastor said she “cried a river.”

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  Sep 9, 2024

  Wanted for child sex crimes, megachurch pastor Apollo Quiboloy surrenders after weeks-long manhunt

  After a contentious two-week standoff with Philippines police at his church's 74-acre compound in Davao City, popular televangelist and Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Apollo Quiboloy surrendered to authorities Sunday to answer to child sex trafficking and other charges.

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  Sep 8, 2024

  To get emotional benefits from going to church, believers must attend regularly: study

  Believers who only attend church a few times a year yet expect to get an emotional lift that will last need to go more frequently, according to the findings of a recent study published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

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  Sep 6, 2024

  Colin Gray, father of Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray, is arrested and charged

  Colin Gray, the father of the 14-year-old charged in the Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray, has been arrested and charged in connection with the actions of his son.

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  Sep 6, 2024

  Fewer churchgoers giving more to cover church expenses as pastors contend with inflation: study

  Though churches have reported ongoing declines in worship service attendance, their fiscal health has not suffered as significantly because the faithful who continue to attend have been giving more to cover operating expenses, a new study suggests.