Leonardo Blair

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  Apr 1, 2020

  Citing First Amendment, outspoken minority of pastors refuse to close churches amid pandemic

  Citing First Amendment rights, an outspoken minority of pastors across the country are resisting calls from federal and local government authorities to close their churches amid the new coronavirus pandemic despite facing fines and arrests.

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  Mar 31, 2020

  Ill. megachurch pastor, grandfather of 10 dies of coronavirus

  Calvary Church of Naperville in Illinois is now wrapped in grief after losing one of their beloved pastors, Angel Escamilla, to the new coronavirus Sunday night, just a week after he tested positive for the disease. He was 68.

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  Mar 31, 2020

  Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne says shots fired at church, he’s now getting death threats after arrest

  Hours after he was arrested for holding worship services during the coronavirus pandemic in violation of a "safer-at-home" order Monday, leader of River at Tampa Bay Church in Tampa, Florida, pastor Rodney Howard-Browne, said he's now getting death threats and shots were fired at the church's sign.

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  Mar 30, 2020

  Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne arrested for holding church service, defying ‘safer-at-home’ order

  Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne, leader of Revival International Ministries and The River at Tampa Bay Church in Tampa, Florida, was arrested Monday for what officials say was the violation of a "safer-at-home" order, which prohibits large worship services during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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  Mar 30, 2020

  Tony Perkins slams churches still gathering during pandemic, calls action ‘defiance of common sense’

  Family Research Council President Tony Perkins slammed churches that have continued to gather as the coronavirus pandemic explodes across the county, calling their action a “defiance of common sense.”

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  Mar 30, 2020

  Gloves, masks, social distancing and the coronavirus in New York City’s grim new normal

  It’s early spring but life in this once bustling city has slowed to a crawl. Residents have huddled down and now interact with extreme caution behind gloves, masks and social distancing orders in a bid to save lives in the beloved American city now most overwhelmed by the new coronavirus.

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  Mar 29, 2020

  Church leaders urged to prepare for long-term shift in how people worship amid pandemic

  Denominational executives are urging pastors to protect their mental health as well as prepare for a long-term shift in the way the church worships as the world struggles to respond to the new coronavirus pandemic that currently has no cure.

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  Mar 27, 2020

  43 people fall ill at Pentecostal church after revival, 10 test positive for coronavirus

  Several members of an Illinois Pentecostal church are either at the hospital or in home quarantine after at least 43 congregants fell ill following a revival service two Sundays ago, and at least 10 of them have tested positive for the new coronavirus.

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  Mar 27, 2020

  3 pastors killed by coronavirus; one thought God allowed infection so he could ‘get a little rest’

  At least three separate pastors have died in recent days after testing positive for the new coronavirus, including two who raised concern that the virus was being used as a tool of the devil to manipulate the masses or silence Christians.

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  Mar 26, 2020

  Multiple periods of social distancing will be needed to beat coronavirus, Harvard researchers say

  Multiple periods of controlled social distancing measures will be necessary into 2022 to beat the new coronavirus if there are no other treatments implemented to fight it, according to a group of Harvard researchers studying the pandemic.