Leonardo Blair

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  Nov 22, 2021

  Man vows to stand guard every day at Baltimore church after grandmother is murdered inside

  A 53-year-old Baltimore man who says he's dissatisfied with the mayor’s crime plan has vowed to stand guard outside the Southern Baptist Church where Evelyn Player, a 69-year-old church worker, was murdered last Tuesday, to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

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  Nov 20, 2021

  Megachurch pastor coerced girls, women to have sex with him under threat of ‘eternal damnation': DOJ

  Claiming that sex with him was a “privilege” and “God’s will,” controversial megachurch pastor and founder of the Philippines-based Kingdom of Jesus Christ Church, Apollo Quiboloy, and two of his top administrators have been charged with trafficking young women and girls in the U.S. who were coerced into having sex with him under threats of “eternal damnation.”

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  Nov 19, 2021

  Matt Hagee apologizes for ‘Let’s go Brandon’ chant at event hosted at Cornerstone Church

  A week after the audience at a conference being hosted at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, were led into chants of “Let’s go Brandon," a euphemism for an insult aimed at President Joe Biden, Matt Hagee, the church’s pastor and son of founding pastor, John Hagee, has apologized.

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  Nov 19, 2021

  After praying, judge finds jail ‘inappropriate’ for man convicted of raping, sexually assaulting 4 teen girls

  Matthew J. Murphy III, a judge working in the Niagara County Court system in New York said he “prayed” Wednesday before deciding jail wasn’t an “appropriate” place for a now 20-year-old man who raped and sexually assaulted four teenage girls when he was 16 and 17.

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  Nov 19, 2021

  Woman killed inside church may have come early to pray, pastor says; Maryland gov. offers $100K reward

  Evelyn Player, a 69-year-old retiree who was found murdered inside the Southern Baptist Church in East Baltimore on Tuesday, might have arrived at the church early to pray, her pastor said. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has offered a $100,000 reward to help solve her murder.

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  Nov 19, 2021

  Christian Aid Ministries declares another ‘special day of prayer and fasting’ as 17 missionaries remain captive in Haiti

  Christian Aid Ministries called for more prayers for its 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti more than 30 days ago as officials declared Thursday another “special day of prayer and fasting.”

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  Nov 18, 2021

  ‘Sea of preachers’ gather at courthouse in Ahmaud Arbery trial after attorney slams black pastors

  A “sea of preachers” gathered Thursday at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Georgia, where three white men are on trial for the murder of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. The gathering comes a week after defense attorney Kevin Gough asked a judge to limit the number of black pastors who can support Arbery’s family inside the courtroom.

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  Nov 17, 2021

  Woman, 69, found murdered inside church where family worshiped for 4 generations

  Evelyn Player, a 69-year-old retiree, was found stabbed to death Tuesday morning inside the Southern Baptist Church in East Baltimore, Maryland, where she volunteered and her family worshiped for four generations.

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  Nov 17, 2021

  Liverpool bomber tried to 'game' asylum system with Christian conversion, official says

  Emad Al Swealmeen, a 32-year-old man who detonated an improvised explosive device, killing himself and injuring a driver in a taxicab outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Sunday morning, tried to use his claim of Christian conversion to “game” the country’s asylum system, U.K. Home Office sources contend. 

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  Nov 17, 2021

  Record levels of pastors, more than half of mainline preachers ‘seriously considering’ quitting: study

  As more pastors report struggling with their overall well-being amid the COVID-19 pandemic, record numbers of them including more than half of preachers in mainline Protestant churches are now “seriously considering” leaving full-time ministry a new study from Barna Group shows.