Leonardo Blair

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  Jun 16, 2020

  Televangelist Rod Parsley under fire for claiming America’s founders released all their slaves

  Televangelist Rod Parsley, who leads the Columbus, Ohio-based World Harvest Church, has come under fire for a recent message he shared on social media in which he urged people not to hate America’s slaveholding founding fathers as a national conversation rages around the removal of confederate monuments.

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  Jun 15, 2020

  Black pastor arrested after calling 911 on white trespassers threatening to kill him

  A black Virginia pastor, who said he was forced to brandish his gun to scare off five white individuals who allegedly verbally and physically attacked him when he tried to prevent them from dumping on his property, said he was arrested after he called 911 for help on June 1.

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  Jun 15, 2020

  Church of the Highlands Pastor Chris Hodges says he’s cried ‘buckets’ over race controversy

  Two weeks after he was accused of liking racially insensitive posts on social media, Pastor Chris Hodges of Church of the Highlands in Alabama told his congregation Sunday that he has cried “buckets” since then and is now a changed man since the controversy erupted.

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  Jun 12, 2020

  Donnie McClurkin calls last 2.5 months ‘harrowing’ after surviving coronavirus, burying loved ones

  Gospel singer and pastor of Perfecting Faith Church in Freeport, New York, Donnie McClurkin called the last 2 ½ months “harrowing” as the nation continues to reel in civil unrest over racial injustice and the coronavirus pandemic.

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  Jun 12, 2020

  Baptisms, miracles taking place in revival at site where George Floyd died, Christian groups say

  A number of Christian groups which have been holding revival services at the site where George Floyd died in Minneapolis say they are seeing many people turn to God in baptisms and miracles happening.

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  Jun 12, 2020

  SBC could elect Rolland Slade as first black chair of executive committee

  Eight years after electing Fred Luter Jr. as the denomination’s first black president, the Southern Baptist Convention could soon elect California Pastor Rolland Slade, 62, as the first black chairman of its executive committee.

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  Jun 12, 2020

  Barbecue Baptist Church serves Gospel with a side of ribs, chicken and pulled pork

  An outreach ministry of the First Baptist Church in Navasota, Texas called the Barbecue Baptist Church kicked off a weeklong, multi-city mission Thursday to bring the Gospel to first responders and medical professionals along with ample servings of free barbecue meals.

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  Jun 11, 2020

  Jeff Sessions says gov't agencies cutting ties with Ala. megachurch is attack on religious liberty

  Former U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions, who is campaigning to return to his seat in the U.S. Senate, slammed decisions by the Birmingham Board of Education and the Birmingham Housing Authority to cut ties with the Church of the Highlands over social media likes made by Pastor Chris Hodges as an attack on free speech and religious freedom.

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  Jun 11, 2020

  Mitch McConnell calls out ‘double standard’ in allowing protests, but not church services

  Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called out a “double standard” among Democrats who restricted the First Amendment right of Christians to gather for in-person worship services during the coronavirus pandemic but celebrated throngs of people protesting in the nation’s streets in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

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  Jun 10, 2020

  JD Greear endorses black lives matter as gospel issue, denounces organization

  President of the Southern Baptist Convention, J.D. Greear, endorsed the black lives matter movement as a Gospel issue to members of the world's largest Baptist denomination Wednesday, but denounced the Black Lives Matter organization that sparked the movement in 2013.