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  Sep 20, 2019

  Televangelist Ernest Angley reportedly cannot pay to fix grounded ministry jet

  Ailing televangelist Ernest Angley of Grace Cathedral in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, reportedly cannot pay to fix the Boeing 747 jet, known as the "Star Triple Seven," his ministry uses for mission trips. It has been wasting away at the Pinal Airpark in Marana, Arizona, for the last 19 months.

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  Sep 19, 2019

  Pastor Jarrid Wilson’s wife celebrates his first ‘birthday in heaven’ after suicide

  The wife of late California pastor Jarrid Wilson, who took his life over a week ago after a long battle with depression, celebrated his first “birthday in heaven” Wednesday.

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  Sep 19, 2019

  Ohio megachurch on sale for $8M months after some congregants stop giving over pastor’s affairs

  Months after Pastor Victor S. Couzens of Inspirational Baptist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, pleaded with his congregants to start giving again while assuring them that he had not used their donations to finance relationships with multiple women, his church’s sprawling building is now up for sale.

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  Sep 18, 2019

  74-y-o pastor who attempted suicide after being accused of abusing underage girls is acquitted

  A 74-year-old Indiana pastor, who attempted suicide nearly two years ago after being accused of luring several underage girls to his office with candy and sexually molesting them, has been acquitted of all charges.

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  Sep 18, 2019

  People struggling with mental illness shouldn’t be in church leadership, Jarrid Wilson’s friend says

  Dale Partridge, a pastor and house church planter and “true” friend of late California Pastor Jarrid Wilson, says Wilson had expressed a desire to step down from his high pressure role as associate pastor prior to his suicide.

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  Sep 17, 2019

  Pension crisis could be looming for at least a million retirees of religious organizations

  For Catholic-affiliated organizations alone, about 1 million pensioners are now estimated to be at risk of having reduced or zero pension benefits due to a federal law that exempts religious organizations from providing regulated and guaranteed pensions.

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  Sep 17, 2019

  Edward Snowden brands advancing AI ‘greatest danger’ for future

  Former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned that continued advancement of artificial intelligence could lead to more pernicious policing of people around the world through the creation of a “permanent record” of their life.

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  Sep 16, 2019

  Diocese of Rochester files for bankruptcy after flood of sex abuse lawsuits

  Weeks after being hit with dozens of sex abuse lawsuits, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester in New York has filed for bankruptcy.

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  Sep 16, 2019

  New Birth announces plans to build affordable housing for seniors, medical facility on church land

  Billing New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, the “largest land-owning church in America,” pastor Jamal Bryant announced plans Sunday to build affordable housing for seniors as well as a medical facility on the church’s campus that will serve the uninsured and underinsured.

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  Sep 14, 2019

  Jarrid Wilson’s wife says she will continue to champion suicide prevention despite his suicide

  Juli Wilson, wife of late associate pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, Jarrid Wilson, says she intends to keep championing suicide prevention despite her husband taking his own life on Monday.