Leonardo Blair

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  Jun 29, 2020

  Joe Biden courts evangelicals as polls show Trump slipping with voting bloc

  As polls show President Donald Trump’s support slipping among white evangelicals, the campaign for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden sees an opening for their candidate to pull away voters from the president’s most faithful voting bloc.

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  Jun 26, 2020

  Black Southern Baptists urge removal of names of slaveholders from seminary

  Prominent black Southern Baptist pastor Dwight McKissic and others are calling for the removal of the names of former slaveholders from buildings at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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  Jun 26, 2020

  Televangelist Kenneth Copeland says his faith is protecting him from 'creep' coronavirus

  Televangelist Kenneth Copeland said Tuesday that his faith in God is shielding him from the new coronavirus, which he dismissed as a “creep” and the “flu.” He also urged born-again Christians to put their angel to work by activating their faith against the disease.

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  Jun 26, 2020

  Prayers go up, search underway after Amish teen goes missing while walking home from church

  Earnest prayers to God and a search are now underway for an 18-year-old Amish girl from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, five days after she went missing after attending church on Sunday.

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  Jun 25, 2020

  NY imposes quarantine, fines up to $10,000 for travelers from coronavirus hotspots

  New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced a joint incoming travel advisory Wednesday with New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut, imposing a two-week quarantine on anyone coming from states that are currently coronavirus hotspots.

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  Jun 25, 2020

  Miss. pastor says church booted him for supporting 'black lives matter'

  A white Mississippi pastor, who believes God has been calling him to multicultural ministry, says he was given the boot by The Heights Church in Columbus for supporting the idea that “black lives matter (as a human fact)” and standing with protesters against racial injustice.

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  Jun 25, 2020

  Controversial S. Korean church donating $83B worth of blood plasma as prices soar in pandemic

  Shincheonji Church of Jesus, which many view as a religious cult and was blamed for the propagation of the new coronavirus in South Korea, said 4,000 church members who fully recovered from the disease will donate coveted blood plasma with an estimated market value of up to $83 billion toward convalescent plasma therapy.

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  Jun 24, 2020

  Senator introduces bill that would give taxpayers $4,000 to take a vacation

  A new bill introduced by Republican Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona is seeking to give $4,000 each to taxpayers so they can take a vacation anywhere in the U.S. at least 50 miles from their primary residence to boost the tourism and hospitality industries that have been hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

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  Jun 24, 2020

  Texas couple married for 53 years die from coronavirus while holding hands

  A beloved couple who died 50 minutes apart while holding hands at a hospital in Fort Worth are among the more than 2,200 coronavirus-related fatalities in Texas as the state has reported a surge in infections that has brought the total to at least 125,000 cases statewide Wednesday.

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  Jun 24, 2020

  Company says air system doesn’t kill COVID-19 after church that held Trump rally claimed it does

  CleanAir EXP, the company behind a commercial air purification system that was touted as a COVID-19 killer by leaders of Dream City Church in Arizona where President Donald Trump held a packed rally on Tuesday, said their system does not kill the deadly virus.