Leonardo Blair

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  Jun 21, 2023

  Detroit ends lawsuit against Marvin Winan’s Perfecting Church with new agreement

  After months of public sparring, officials in the city of Detroit have agreed to end a lawsuit against Grammy-winning gospel singer Marvin Winans and his Perfecting Church in Michigan for failing to complete their 18-year-old new church project at Woodward Ave & W 7 Mile Road in a timely manner.

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  Jun 21, 2023

  Youth group praises God after narrowly escaping fire on church bus

  Two adults  and 11 children from the Anchor Church youth group in Houston, Texas, are thanking God after they narrowly evacuated a van they were travelling in to attend summer camp moments before it erupted in flames on I-610 at Wayside on Tuesday.

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  Jun 21, 2023

  It’s ‘hellish doctrine’ to believe ‘God wants you to be happy, never suffer': Pastor Kent Christmas

  Founding pastor of Regeneration Nashville, Kent Christmas, has slammed the idea that God wants Christians to be happy and “never suffer” as a “hellish doctrine” being driven by lazy Christians.

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  Jun 21, 2023

  Well-being of pastors drops significantly, especially in having true friends: study

  In key measures of well-being such as physical, mental, emotional, and overall health pastors have suffered significant declines over the last seven years, especially when it comes to having true friends, a new report from Barna Research shows.

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  Jun 20, 2023

  NYC Mayor Eric Adams says God told him to talk about faith in public

  Calling himself “the perfectly imperfect child of God that shows the power of God,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in a fiery Father’s Day speech on Sunday that he won’t stop talking about God and the importance of faith in society, despite attacks from the media about it, because God told him to do it.

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  Jun 19, 2023

  Ohio father executes 3 young sons, confesses he planned killings for months

  While his father believes he just “snapped,” authorities say 32-year-old Chad Doerman confessed he planned for months before he lined up his three young sons at his home in Clermont County, Ohio, last Thursday and shot them execution style with a rifle three days before Father’s Day.

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  Jun 19, 2023

  How sexting destroyed a young megachurch pastor’s marriage and ministry

  In a recent presentation at the Bob Russell Ministries Mentoring Retreat, Patrick Garcia, a former lead pastor at the 7,000-member Crossroads Christian Church and The Hills Church in Indiana, compared his fall out of ministry to a distracted truck driver who was involved in a deadly crash.

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  Jun 17, 2023

  How a cancer treatment hospital in Mexico is mixing faith, food and science to save lives

  At the Oasis of Hope Hospital located about seven miles away from the San Ysidro border crossing in San Diego, California, patients who say they have been blessed by the work of the alternative cancer treatment clinic are singing praises to both God and the medical team helping to keep them alive.

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  Jun 16, 2023

  Christian missionary sentenced to 25 years for allegedly infecting preschooler with STD

  Jordan Webb, a married Christian missionary and father from Iowa convicted of sexual abuse in April after authorities presented circumstantial evidence that he likely infected a preschooler with gonorrhea, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison although he insists he is innocent.

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  Jun 15, 2023

  Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston covered up father’s abuse of boy: prosecutor

  Embattled Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston intentionally covered up his late father Frank Houston's sexual abuse of a boy and shielded him from criminal prosecution to protect the church's image and likely knew about a $10,000 payment that was made to silence the victim, a prosecutor alleged during closing arguments in an Australian court Thursday.