Leonardo Blair

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  Jul 22, 2021

  Married Texas pastor gave teen drugs at church then raped her multiple times, police say

  A married Texas pastor who claims he was only counseling a 15-year-old girl and her family is now in jail after police say he groomed her, gave her methamphetamines and then raped her multiple times in the last month, including at church

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  Jul 21, 2021

  Budding Christian football star who gave ‘blessing bags’ to homeless accused of rape

  In spring 2020, 18-year-old Crosley MacEachen, a standout football player at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy, was praised by the global community service organization GVBACK for helping to assemble “blessing bags” for the homeless. Months later, according to recently filed court documents, MacEachen was accused of raping a girl as she slept at a home in Ohio.

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  Jul 21, 2021

  Tensions over 'liberal' direction of David Platt’s McLean Bible Church erupt in lawsuit

  Growing tensions between disgruntled longtime members of McLean Bible Church in Virginia and the "liberal" direction they allege their Lead Pastor David Platt has been taking the congregation erupted in a lawsuit over a recently held controversial election of new elders some fear could tear the church apart.

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  Jul 21, 2021

  Vaccine mandates likely after full FDA approval, says health expert

  As the Biden administration struggles to convince unvaccinated Americans to voluntarily take widely available COVID-19 vaccines in the face of rising infections and hospitalizations, one health expert believes vaccines could likely become mandated by businesses and government agencies once they receive full approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

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  Jul 21, 2021

  SBC megachurch ‘shocked’ ex-pastor arrested, accused of grooming, molesting 12-y-o girl

  Chets Creek Church, a multi-campus Southern Baptist megachurch in Florida, was “shocked and devastated” to learn that former Southside campus pastor Jeff Bedwell was recently arrested for allegedly grooming and sexually molesting a young girl from the age of 12 until she turned 17.

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  Jul 21, 2021

  Proud Boys leader pleads guilty to burning Black Lives Matter flag at DC church

  Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the Afro-Cuban international chairman of the far-right Proud Boys group arrested in January for the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Washington, D.C., church, pleaded guilty Monday to two misdemeanors.

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  Jul 20, 2021

  Gordon-Conwell Seminary cuts only black faculty member from Hamilton campus, sparks uproar

  As recently as April this year, the Rev. Emmett Price III, one of America’s leading experts on the black Christian experience, featured prominently as the only black face on the faculty page of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary’s Hamilton campus in Massachusetts.

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  Jul 19, 2021

  Illinois pastor accused of sexually violating church member but remains in pulpit

  A week after he was charged with sexually violating a church member while going to the congregant's home to fix a refrigerator, Antwon M. Funches Sr., the leader of the historic St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Freeport, Illinois, remains in the pulpit.

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  Jul 15, 2021

  Pastor is key suspect in assassination of Haitian president, but many say he’s innocent

  Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a 62-year-old Haitian-born American pastor and medical doctor who has lived in the U.S. since the late 1970s, has been named by local authorities as one of the key suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. However, the pastor, along with many who know him, says he is innocent.

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  Jul 15, 2021

  Promise Keepers almost convinced Bill Clinton to apologize for slavery, says AR Bernard

  In a presidential radio address on Oct. 4, 1997, then-President Bill Clinton praised Christian men’s ministry Promise Keepers for helping men lead their families responsibly. Not so well-known, according to one of the organization’s board members and leader of New York City's 40,000-member Christian Cultural Center, the Rev. A.R. Bernard, is that the group also tried pushing Clinton to do something that has yet to be done by any president or Congress in history — apologize for slavery.