Leonardo Blair

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  Oct 17, 2019

  5 things to know about Congressman Elijah Cummings

  Esteemed Democratic congressman from Maryland Elijah E. Cummings, who was well-known for his devotion to civil rights activism and the city of Baltimore, died early Thursday morning. He was 68.

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  Oct 16, 2019

  Pastor who voted for Trump says he ‘begged God’ in his prayer closet for impeachment

  The Rev. O’Neal Dozier, the outspoken leader of the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano, Florida, who voted enthusiastically for President Donald Trump in 2016, says he's now begging God to remove him from office through impeachment.

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  Oct 16, 2019

  Peter Popoff’s miracle spring water show banned in UK, gov’t cracks down on its cancer-curing claims

  The U.K.'s Office of Communications, also known as Ofcom, has slapped a satellite television service provider with a fine of over $32,000 for airing a religious program featuring controversial televangelist Peter Popoff hawking miracle spring water that promises to cure cancer and other diseases.

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  Oct 15, 2019

  2 priests killed in crash with tractor trailer, another minister injured

  A California pastor and an archbishop visiting from India were killed in a crash with a tractor-trailer Thursday that also wounded another priest.

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  Oct 15, 2019

  Wheaton College’s Billy Graham Center to host conference addressing church leadership crises

  Partly inspired by the recent suicide of pastor Jarrid Wilson, a mental health advocate, Wheaton College’s Billy Graham Center is set to host a one-day evangelical summit to address issues of leadership, burnout, and mental health.

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  Oct 15, 2019

  White owner of Word Network refuses to apologize for controversial meme showing pimping of black pastors

  Kevin Adell, the white owner and CEO of the Word Network billed “the largest, African-American religious network in the WORLD,” refused to apologize for sharing a meme which depicts him pimping popular black preachers.

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  Oct 12, 2019

  Justice Clarence Thomas once left the church ‘disillusioned,’ but found faith again in ‘darkest’ hour

  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who spent four years training in seminary, said he once got so “disillusioned” with Christianity he abandoned it in a huff. But he found hope in his faith again during one of the “darkest periods” of his life.

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  Oct 12, 2019

  Pope Francis’ atheist friend claims pontiff told him Jesus incarnate was ‘not at all a God’

  Eugenio Scalfari, a 95-year-old self-professed atheist and journalist who has been a longtime friend of Pope Francis recently claimed the pontiff doesn’t believe Jesus Christ incarnate was divine.

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  Oct 11, 2019

  Atheists believe gestures of ‘thoughts and prayers’ in hard times make them worse off, study finds

  Christians who suffer during natural and human disasters value thoughts and prayers from religious strangers, while atheists and agnostics believe they are made worse off by such gestures, a new study led by a University of Wyoming economist shows.

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  Oct 11, 2019

  Beto O’Rourke says churches should lose tax-exempt status for opposing same-sex marriage

  Former Texas representative and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said Thursday that churches, charities and other religious institutions that oppose same-sex marriage should lose their tax exempt status.