Leonardo Blair

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  Mar 11, 2018

  In Isolated World of Pastors, Churches Mum on Troubling Clergy Suicides

  An alarming number of pastors have taken their own lives in the last five years. And despite the increasing prevalence of suicide nationally, and the troubling rates at which the epidemic has been affecting certain groups of clergy, many churches remain silent on the issue.

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  Mar 9, 2018

  Morning Star Community Church Pastor Ken Engelking Resigns Over Sexual Misconduct Allegations

  After 31 years serving at the Morning Star Community Church in Salem, Oregon, Ken Engelking, former executive pastor of the more than 1,800-member church, resigned in January after multiple women accused him, and two other former church staff members and a member of another affiliated church, of abusive and adulterous relationships.

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  Mar 9, 2018

  Modesto Christian School Football Star Arrested in Connection With Multiple Armed Robberies

  Officials at Modesto Christian School in California are still in shock after one of their star football players, 18-year-old Davion Dangelo Gates was arrested Sunday on multiple counts of armed robbery and attempted robbery.

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  Mar 9, 2018

  Hundreds From Rockford Christian Community Pay Tribute to Brothers Killed by Father, Peter S Ruckman

  Hundreds of people from the Rockford Christian community in Illinois showed up at the visitation service for brothers John "Jack" and Christopher Ruckman, both of whom were shot dead by their father, Peter S. Ruckman, a well-known political scientist and son of the late founder of the Pensacola Bible Institute, in a tragic case of murder-suicide last week.

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  Mar 8, 2018

  Son, Grandkids of Pensacola Bible Institute Founder Peter Sturges Ruckman Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide

  Peter S. Ruckman, a decorated political scientist and son of the late founder of the Pensacola Bible Institute Peter Sturges Ruckman, who also led the Pensacola Bible Baptist Church, was found dead along with his two young sons in his Illinois home in an apparent murder-suicide on Saturday.

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  Mar 7, 2018

  DOJ Sues Wisconsin County for Forcing Christian Woman to Get Flu Shot

  The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, for allegedly violating the civil rights of a Christian nursing assistant in a county-owned nursing home by forcing her to get a flu shot despite her sincerely held religious objections to the vaccine.

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  Mar 7, 2018

  Christian Nashville Mayor Megan Barry Resigns in Plea Agreement After Admitting Affair

  Megan Barry, a professed Catholic and the first woman to become mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, in September 2015, resigned from her post on Tuesday as part of a plea agreement for felony theft charges.

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  Mar 7, 2018

  After Threatening Suicide, Pastor Ronnie Gorton Indicted on 47 Charges of Sexually Assaulting Boys

  After allegedly threatening to take his life last month over allegations that he raped two underage boys, Ronnie Gorton, a married father and lead pastor of The Awakening Church in Atoka, Tennessee, was indicted Monday on 47 counts of illegal relations with three underage boys.

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  Mar 6, 2018

  Ken Ham Celebrates Talk at University of Central Oklahoma as Win for Freedom of Speech

  In a move that's being celebrated as a win for freedom of speech, Ken Ham, president of the Kentucky-based Answers in Genesis Young Earth apologetics ministry, delivered a protest-free presentation on the ideas of Charles Darwin at the University of Central Oklahoma Monday after opposition from LGBT activists forced a short-lived cancellation of the event.

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  Mar 6, 2018

  Thousands Call for Removal of Judge Who Gave Man No Jail Time for Raping 13-Y-O at Church Camp

  Thousands are now calling for the removal of Oklahoma District Judge Wallace Coppedge after he handed down a sentence of probation instead of prison to a 36-year-old man who brutally raped and sodomized a 13-year-old girl at Falls Creek church camp in Oklahoma.