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  Nov 10, 2022

  10-year-old boy could face charge after school counselor told police he touched her inappropriately

  A 10-year-old Florida boy is facing a potential misdemeanor battery charge after a counselor at Holly Hill School in Volusia County told police that the fourth grader touched her inappropriately while giving her a hug. The student was suspended as a result and his family is disputing the allegation, arguing that it is rooted in racism.

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  Nov 9, 2022

  42% of Gen Z have diagnosed mental health condition, majority worried about future: study

  Nearly 70% of Generation Z, people born between 1997 and 2012, say their mental health was adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with 42% of adult members of the cohort reporting that they have been diagnosed with a mental health condition and many of them say they are worried about the future, a new study from data management firm Harmony Healthcare IT shows.

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  Nov 9, 2022

  Ex-megachurch elder charged with murder of adopted 11-year-old daughter months after husband’s suicide

  Leticia McCormack, a one-time elder and ministry worker, has been arrested and charged with murder and several other crimes related to the death of her 11-year-old adopted daughter.

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  Nov 8, 2022

  Pastor Perry Noble opens up about repentance and scripture that helped him after ‘screw up in 2016’

  Second Chance Church founder and Senior Pastor Perry Noble, who was fired from NewSpring Church in South Carolina in 2016 for alcohol abuse and other "unfortunate choices and decisions," says he didn’t truly repent of his failures until he started viewing the situation from a Christlike perspective.

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  Nov 8, 2022

  Tickets for Migos rapper Takeoff’s funeral available online as pastor reveals he ‘loved coming to worship’

  Popular Migos rapper Takeoff, who was shot and killed in Houston at the age of 28, is remembered by his pastor as a church member who loved coming to worship and being with his family.

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  Nov 8, 2022

  Most US adults say church buildings are 'transcendent' spaces but majority don’t visit regularly

  While most U.S. adults view church buildings as transcendent spaces where they can experience a sense of peace and a connectedness to the divine, the majority, including self-identified Christians, do not regularly visit a space they consider transcendent, new research shows.

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  Nov 7, 2022

  Community mourns 6 children found dead with parents in suspected murder-suicide

  Elected officials and several pastors banded together Sunday with community members at a prayer and healing service hosted by First Baptist Church Broken Arrow in Oklahoma to grieve the loss of six children and their parents found dead less than two weeks ago in what police suspect was a murder-suicide.

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  Nov 7, 2022

  A small town pastor’s push to bring people back to church through the metaverse

  While some experts on innovative leadership believe that church fellowship in physical buildings has largely been made irrelevant by digital technology, Pastor Jason Poling is experimenting with using the metaverse to make disciples and bringing them back to in-person congregations.

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  Nov 4, 2022

  Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, remembered as man of faith and truth at memorial

  A diverse community of grieving family, politicians and Christian disciples packed the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem Friday to celebrate the life of the church’s longtime pastor and community leader, Calvin O. Butts III, who was remembered as a man of faith, truth and conviction.

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  Nov 4, 2022

  Barry Buzza, former leader of Foursquare Church in Canada, accused of sexual abuse

  Barry Buzza, a former president of the Foursquare Church in Canada, and founder of Northside Church, the evangelical Pentecostal denomination’s largest congregation in that country, is being sued by a former female member of the church for “psychological, spiritual, and sexual grooming, abuse and exploitation.”