Leonardo Blair

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  Feb 14, 2019

  New York’s Trinity Church has a diverse investment portfolio worth $6 billion

  As many churches in New York City struggle to survive and keep their buildings, Trinity Church, a congregation in Lower Manhattan, has emerged as a major real estate developer with a diverse investment portfolio worth $6 billion, according to the church’s current rector, the Rev. William Lupfer.

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  Feb 13, 2019

  Gov. Cuomo claims Trump wants to roll back Roe v. Wade after meeting on late-term abortion

  New York’s Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo claims President Trump wants to roll back the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision after a closed door meeting at the White House Tuesday evening in which the two discussed taxes and Cuomo’s support of late-term abortion.

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  Feb 12, 2019

  North Carolina could outlaw abortion after 13 weeks

  Republican North Carolina legislators have proposed a bill that could outlaw abortion after 13 weeks as New York State Democrats made headlines last month for passing a bill that allows abortion up to birth if the health of the mother is threatened.

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  Feb 12, 2019

  JD Greear says 700 victims can't be 'whole story,' urges other victims to come forward

  Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear suggested Monday that the 700 victims of reported sexual abuse at the hands of leaders and volunteers in churches over the last 20 years doesn't give the “whole story” of the problem and urged other victims to come forward and get help.

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  Feb 12, 2019

  Bible experts Eric Mason, James White clash over racist history of abortion

  Two leading Bible experts and prolific writers, Eric Mason and James White, have clashed over the racist history of abortion.

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  Feb 11, 2019

  After NY abortion law, man murders pregnant girlfriend, won't be charged for killing fetus

  A second-degree abortion charge was dropped against a man who knifed his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her unborn child to death in Queens, New York, due to the recently enacted Reproductive Health Act that removed abortion from the state's criminal code.

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  Feb 11, 2019

  Pastor staged his suicide to look like murder to save family from shame, say police

  The Rev. Dale R. Cross Sr., a longtime pastor of Abundant Life Church in Wyoming, Michigan, who preached against suicide, took his own life but staged it to look like a murder to save his family from shame, local police and medical authorities have concluded.

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  Feb 11, 2019

  Challenged by racism in white churches, black churches endure but with competition

  The Rev. Cheryl J. Sanders was studied and direct. “The black church will no longer be needed when the white church puts away its racism. But I haven’t seen that yet,” she said.

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  Feb 7, 2019

  Davey Blackburn reveals he knew Resonate Church would close before he resigned

  A week after his surprise resignation from the now defunct Resonate Church he founded with his late wife, Amanda, Indiana Pastor Davey Blackburn said he knew the church was going to close before his resignation but he didn't reveal that to the congregants.

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  Feb 6, 2019

  Some black Christians who once supported Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam want him to resign

  Although embattled Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s predominantly black home church and pastor say they are willing to give him “another chance” to show he has repented for wearing blackface in the past, some black Christians who once supported him say the only path to redemption is to resign.