Leonardo Blair

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  Jul 30, 2024

  Televangelist Benny Hinn’s wife files for divorce, again

  Now living in separate homes more than 60 miles apart, Suzanne Hinn, the wife of controversial prosperity preacher and televangelist Benny Hinn, filed for divorce from her estranged husband last Friday, court records show.

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  Jul 29, 2024

  Tom Lane, ex-Gateway Church executive pastor, says he didn’t know Cindy Clemishire was abused at 12

  Tom Lane, a former executive pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, who first responded to allegations from Cindy Clemishire, 54, that she was sexually abused by the megachurch’s founder, Robert Morris, says he wasn't aware that the abuse began when she was 12.

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  Jul 29, 2024

  Brazilian skateboarder Rayssa Leal quotes John 14:6 after winning bronze medal in Paris

  While many Christians expressed outrage at the debauchery and mockery of Christian symbolism celebrated during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, Christian athletes like 16-year-old Brazilian skateboarder Rayssa Leal are responding by using their visibility to celebrate their faith.

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  Jul 26, 2024

  ‘Prophet’ who killed wife outside her workplace sentenced to life in prison

  Sylvester Ofori, a self-styled prophet and the former leader of Floodgates of Heaven International Ministries in Orlando, Florida, who fatally shot his estranged wife in 2020, was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for first-degree murder.

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  Jul 26, 2024

  Robert Morris’ son exits Gateway Church; Max Lucado to serve as interim teaching pastor

  Bestselling Christian author Max Lucado will join Gateway Church as a teaching pastor while James Morris, the son of the church's embattled founder Robert Morris, stepped down Thursday, only weeks after he succeeded his father at the helm of the church in June amid a child sex abuse scandal.

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  Jul 25, 2024

  Sonya Massey’s son, mother say race contributed to her death after she rebuked officer in Jesus' name

  The teenage son and mother of 36-year-old Sonya Massey who was shot dead by a sheriff's deputy inside her home in Springfield, Illinois, after she rebuked him "in the name of Jesus," say they believe race played a role in her death earlier this month.

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  Jul 25, 2024

  IHOPKC’s board says 24/7 Prayer Room will no longer be connected to a church

  After months of deliberation, the board of the embattled International House of Prayer Kansas City has decided that their vaunted 24/7 Prayer Room will not be operated under the umbrella of any church following the shuttering of several arms of the ministry, including the Forerunner Church, in the wake of a sexual misconduct scandal involving founder Mike Bickle.

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  Jul 24, 2024

  Ex-church assistant stole $300K in offerings to feed TikTok addiction

  A former administrative assistant at the St. Francis of Assisi University Parish in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is now facing a possible 20 years in prison after she plead guilty to stealing some $300,000 from her church and spending most of the money on gifts for TikTok content creators leaving church officials baffled.

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  Jul 24, 2024

  Officer who killed Sonya Massey after she rebuked him in Jesus’ name is ‘emissary of Satan,’ dad says

  The father of 36-year-old Sonya Massey — who was shot dead by a sheriff's deputy inside her home in Springfield, Illinois, after she rebuked him "in the name of Jesus" earlier this month — called the officer who killed his daughter an "emissary of Satan."

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  Jul 23, 2024

  Elevation Church collects over $100M in tithes, offerings in 2023 as attendance soars

  Pastor Steven Furtick’s multi-campus Elevation Church, headquartered in North Carolina, collected more than $108 million in tithes and offerings in 2023, as in-person church attendance soared to more than 17,000 worshipers weekly with three new campuses, according to the megachurch’s 2023 annual report.