Leonardo Blair

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  Feb 6, 2019

  President Trump rebukes late-term abortion in SOTU, draws praise from pro-life groups

  President Donald Trump rebuked supporters of late term abortion and urged Congress to ban the practice in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night as conservatives and pro-life activists cheered the move.

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  Feb 5, 2019

  Court finds Harper Collins Christian Publishing guilty of fraud

  HarperCollins Christian Publishers, formerly Thomas Nelson, has been found guilty of fraud and breach of contract by a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.

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  Feb 5, 2019

  Senate Democrats block bill to protect babies who survive abortion

  A bill meant to preserve the life of babies who survive an abortion attempt was rejected by Senate Democrats after Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse pleaded with them to unanimously pass the measure Monday.

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  Feb 4, 2019

  E. Dewey Smith’s House of Hope names 19-y-o social media star Kelontae Gavin as worship pastor

  Nearly five years after he went viral singing “I Won’t Complain” in his high school cafeteria, 19-year-old social media sensation-turned-recording-artist Kelontae Gavin was announced as the new worship pastor of the House of Hope Atlanta megachurch on Sunday.

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  Feb 4, 2019

  Charles Jenkins announces retirement from Fellowship Missionary Chicago, names Reginald Sharpe Jr as successor

  After almost two decades at the helm, popular worship singer and senior pastor of the historic Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, Charles Jenkins, announced Sunday he will retire at the end of the year and will be succeeded by, Rev. Reginald Sharpe Jr. 27.

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  Feb 4, 2019

  Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s predominantly black church wants him to have ‘another chance’ after blackface controversy

  As prominent Democrats such as Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called on Virginia’s embattled Democrat Governor Ralph Northam to resign over a still swirling blackface controversy, the governor’s pastor and congregants at a predominantly black church where he is a member wants him to have “another chance.”

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  Feb 2, 2019

  Pro-life activists plan ‘Day of Mourning,’ call for repentance after ‘revolting’ NY abortion law

  Pro-life activists are calling for a Day of Repentance a week after the New York state Legislature passed a bill making it legal for abortionists and other health care professionals to perform abortions up to birth for any reason that might threaten a woman’s mental or physical health.

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  Feb 1, 2019

  Medical missionary who fought Ebola and won in test of faith gets $500K prize

  Nearly five years after the deadly Ebola virus threatened his life and work in Africa, medical missionary Dr. Rick Sacra was honored with the Rabbi Erica and Mark Gerson L’Chaim (“To Life”) Prize for Outstanding Christian Medical Mission Service, and a $500,000 grant to keep going.

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  Jan 31, 2019

  Donald Trump's former pastor says he never saw him in church, advises he read Gospels

  As Donald Trump praised the expansion of Bible literacy in schools this week, Pastor David Lewicki, who served as an associate pastor at the president’s family church in New York City for approximately five years, said the president should also apply Bible literacy to his daily life to help him more actively live out his faith.

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  Jan 30, 2019

  Va. Democrat defends abortion for women in labor: While 'she's dilating?' 'Yes'

  Outrage mounted to a fever-pitch Wednesday as conservatives voiced opposition to a new bill proposed in the Virginia legislature that would allow abortions up to 40 weeks of pregnancy and permit abortions outside of a hospital during the second trimester.