Leonardo Blair

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  Apr 7, 2020

  Bethel Church shifts to online healing rooms, now majority of calls related to stress from coronavirus

  Bethel Church, the Redding, California, megachurch of over 11,500 people which also runs a school of supernatural ministry, has shifted their popular healing rooms to online events weeks after suspending their faith healing ministry at hospitals due to the new coronavirus.

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  Apr 6, 2020

  Supreme Court won’t hear Catholic Church’s challenge to DC Metro’s ban on religious ads

  The Supreme Court denied hearing a petition from the Catholic Church on Monday challenging the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s policy banning religious advertising as a violation of the First Amendment.

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  Apr 6, 2020

  Coronavirus claims 3 more pastors; one may have exposed hundreds to disease at funeral

  At least three more pastors have lost their lives to the new coronavirus in just over a week, leaving more churches across the nation mourning in the fallout from the pandemic.

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  Apr 6, 2020

  Televangelist Kenneth Copeland calls forth ‘supernatural heatwave’ to kill coronavirus in NYC  

  Declaring his authority over the weather and his ability to command it, Texas-based prosperity preacher and televangelist Kenneth Copeland called forth a “supernatural heatwave” last Thursday to kill the new coronavirus in New York City and “the rest of the world where it’s needed.”

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  Apr 3, 2020

  World’s richest man Jeff Bezos donates $100M to US food banks as coronavirus threatens food security

  Amazon founder and the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, who has a net worth of approximately $115 billion, announced a $100 million donation to food banks in America Thursday as a hunger crisis threatens the nation amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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  Apr 3, 2020

  It's not the end of the world but coronavirus 'is serious,' warns Samaritan's Purse doctor at NYC field hospital

  As some Americans including pockets of practicing Christians raise skepticism about how much of a threat the new coronavirus poses to their lives, a doctor leading the Samaritan's Purse coronavirus response at a field hospital in Central Park warned Thursday that “it’s serious,” as residents welcomed the evangelical Christian humanitarian aid organization.

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  Apr 2, 2020

  Pastor Jamal Bryant offers 1,000 COVID-19 tests to minorities for $150 each, then postpones event

  New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, led by pastor Jamal Bryant, announced Thursday that it canceled a two-day drive-thru event at the church where up to 1,000 people would have been tested for COVID-19 for a fee of $150 each. 

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  Apr 2, 2020

  Rodney Howard-Browne shutters megachurch as Florida declares worship essential activity

  Days after he was arrested for leading two worship services, Florida megachurch pastor Rodney Howard-Browne said he's decided to shutter his church even though Gov. Ron DeSantis declared Wednesday that attending church is an essential activity.

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  Apr 1, 2020

  Research from MIT prof. suggests coronavirus could travel 27 feet; Fauci calls it ‘misleading’

  Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force led by Vice President Mike Pence, called recent research by an MIT professor suggesting the new coronavirus could travel up to 27 feet “misleading.”

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  Apr 1, 2020

  Coronavirus causing Americans to pray more, new study says

  While the new coronavirus pandemic has resulted in many churches closing their doors in the name of social distancing, a new survey of more than 11,000 U.S. adults shows that the disease has also inspired more than half of them to pray.