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  May 2, 2018

  Pastor Greg Locke Declares He Will Not Step Down Despite Relentless Calls From Critics

  Popular internet preacher Greg Locke declared Monday that he will not step down from the helm of his Tennessee church despite repeated calls from critics to do so.

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  May 1, 2018

  Sutherland Springs Pastor to Meet Trump at White House for National Day of Prayer

  Frank Pomeroy, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Texas where 26 people including his daughter Annabelle were massacred by a crazed gunman last November is expected to join President Donald Trump at the White House along with other members of his family to for the National Day of Prayer on Thursday.

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  May 1, 2018

  Pastor Mac Brunson Resigns From Jacksonville Megachurch; No 'Scandal' Involved, Officials Say

  Seven months after revealing that he hoped to remain in his position for at least five more years, Mac Brunson, senior pastor of the 10,000-member First Baptist Church of Jacksonville in Florida, abruptly resigned on Sunday as church officials assured members his premature exit wasn't prompted by any scandal.

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  Apr 30, 2018

  Churches Pledge to Stop Calling Police, Citing Controversial Killings, Sexual Assault

  Citing controversial extrajudicial killings and sexual assaults by police officers, a small group of California churches have made a drastic pledge to stop calling the police for help and utilize a more community-based crime fighting efforts.

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  Apr 30, 2018

  Christian College Student Sang 'Jesus Loves Me' Before She Was Shot Dead in Waffle House

  DeEbony Groves, the 21-year-old Christian Belmont University student who was shot dead along with three others in a mass shooting at a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee, sang "Jesus Loves Me" inside the restaurant shortly before she took her final breath.

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  Apr 27, 2018

  Megachurch Pulls Out of Willow Creek's Global Leadership Summit Over Bill Hybels

  Citing the event's "high identification" with Willow Creek Community Church founder Bill Hybels, who has been accused by several women of sexual misconduct, an Illinois megachurch pastor announced that his church will no longer serve as a host site for Willow Creek Association's annual Global Leadership Summit set for this summer.

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  Apr 27, 2018

  5 Things to Know About the New Agreement Between North and South Korea

  South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared an official end to the Korean War and agreed to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula in a historic summit meeting at the Joint Security Area of Panmunjom inside the heavily-fortified Demilitarized Zone that divides the two nations on Friday.

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  Apr 26, 2018

  Church to Honor Waffle House Hero James Shaw Jr. Amid Calls for President Trump's Recognition

  Oakwood University Church in Huntsville, Alabama, is set to honor community hero James Shaw Jr. on Saturday for taking down a gunman who killed four people and injured three others at a Waffle House restaurant in Antioch, Tennessee.

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  Apr 26, 2018

  Pastor of Miami Church That Claims Woman Was 'Raised From Dead' Is Killed in Fiery Crash

  Bishop Darryl Coleman, the beloved pastor of Shake Up Evangelistic Ministries in Miami, where it was once claimed that a woman was "raised from the dead," perished after a fiery crash earlier this month shortly after ministering at a church in the Bahamas. He was 51.

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  Apr 26, 2018

  Only Slim Majority of Americans Believe in God of Bible, Numbers Decline Among Gen X, Millennials

  Although some 80 percent of Americans say they believe in God, only a slim majority of the nation's approximately 327 million people believe in God as described in the Bible, according to results of a new study released by the Pew Research Center. And among those younger than 50, belief in the God of the Bible drops lower than 50 percent.