Leonardo Blair

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  Feb 3, 2020

  Wichita pastor, Chiefs fan who predicted win, dies while in Miami for Super Bowl

  Late Saturday night, longtime Kansas City Chiefs fan Pastor Michael O’Donnell Sr. shared a photo on social media of himself and his family posing with the Vince Lombardi Trophy and predicted it would go to his team for winning their first Super Bowl championship since the 1969 season. O’Donnell’s prediction was right but he never lived to see it.

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  Jan 29, 2020

  Willow Creek apologizes for allowing Bill Hybels’ mentor to teach at church despite abuse allegation

  Six months after closing the chapter on their embattled founder Bill Hybels with a call for him to “repent” as needed for his role in a sexual misconduct scandal, Willow Creek Community Church in suburban Chicago is now apologizing for allowing Hybel’s mentor, Gilbert Bilezikian to keep teaching at the church despite abuse allegations against him.

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  Jan 29, 2020

  Blue-collar workers, especially men, most vulnerable to suicide: CDC

  Blue-collar workers, particularly men, are the most vulnerable among all occupational groups to suicide, according to a new study from the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention, which shows that America’s suicide rate has skyrocketed by 40% since 2000.

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  Jan 28, 2020

  Parishioners at church where Kobe Bryant worshiped hours before crash Sunday ‘stunned’ by his death

  Parishioners at a California church where NBA legend Kobe Bryant worshiped Sunday morning approximately two hours before he perished in a fiery helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others in Calabasas, California, on Sunday were so “stunned” when they got news of his death they could only respond initially with “silence.”

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  Jan 27, 2020

  Paula White says she was 'praying Eph 6:12' when she called for 'all satanic pregnancies to miscarry'

  Pastor Paula White, who serves as an adviser to the Trump administration’s Office of Public Liaison with the Faith and Opportunity Initiative, clarified Sunday that she was “praying Eph 6:12” when she called for “all satanic pregnancies to miscarry” in a clip from one of her sermons that went viral over the weekend.

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  Jan 27, 2020

  Kobe Bryant reportedly attended mass prior to crash that killed him, daughter Gianna, 7 others

  Retired NBA superstar and practicing Catholic Kobe Bryant reportedly attended mass just hours before he was killed in a helicopter crash along with his daughter, Gianna, and seven others Sunday.

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  Jan 25, 2020

  DNC leaders angry at Betsy Devos for comparing ending slavery to ending abortion

  Some Democratic Party leaders are angered that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos compared the battle to end slavery in America with the fight to end abortion.  

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  Jan 25, 2020

  Chick-fil-A owner apologizes after protest over breast-feeding mom being asked to cover up

  The owner of a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Georgia that became the target of a protest this week after a breastfeeding mother complained about being asked to cover up while she dined there Monday has formally apologized.

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  Jan 24, 2020

  36-y-o pastor killed by flu complications after flu shot previously suffered strokes, health issues

  A beloved youth pastor who died Monday at age 36 from flu complications after lamenting having gotten the flu shot had suffered two strokes four years ago and battled other health issues in recent years her pastor revealed at her memorial service Thursday.

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  Jan 23, 2020

  Pastor who pushed to establish community’s only homeless shelter praised by Wisconsin governor

  A pastor who pushed to build a new homeless shelter in Wisconsin after his community’s only one shuttered in 2018 received special mention for his work from the state’s governor, Tony Evers, this week in his 2020 State of the State address.