Leonardo Blair

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  Mar 16, 2017

  Girl, 13, Allegedly Raped by Cook at Popular Church Summer Camp

  The world's largest church summer youth camp, hosted at a conference center owned and operated by the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, could come under greater scrutiny this year after it was alleged in a recent lawsuit that a 13-year-old girl was tied up and brutally raped by a 35-year-old cook last summer.

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  Mar 16, 2017

  Pastor, Father of 6 Fatally Stabbed by Church Member While Praying for Assailant

  A beloved California pastor and father of six with a heart for "outcast and marginalized people" was fatally stabbed in the neck with a drywall saw by a member of his flock Tuesday night as he offered prayers for his alleged killer.

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  Mar 16, 2017

  Hero American Mormon Missionary Disarms, Beats Up Armed Robber in Brazil

  An American Mormon missionary working in Brazil is now being hailed as a hero by some after he disarmed, then beat a gunman who tried to rob him and his Christian brother Saturday.

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  Mar 15, 2017

  Mother of 5 Comes Out as a Man, Her Only Son Becomes a Girl and Husband Says It's OK

  Four years after her only son came out as a transgender girl, Erica Maison, a married Detroit mother of five, has decided to transition into a man named Eric and her husband of 10 years says he has no problem with it.

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  Mar 15, 2017

  Anna Hayford, Wife of Former Church on the Way Pastor Jack Hayford, Dies From Cancer

  Anna Hayford, wife of former senior pastor of The Church on the Way Jack Hayford, has died. She died peacefully at home last Wednesday after battling stage four pancreatic cancer, according to the church. She was 83.

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  Mar 15, 2017

  Texas Senate Approves Controversial Bathroom Bill, Opponents Say It Will Hurt Transgender People

  Despite opponents arguing that it will hurt transgender people by discriminating against them, the Texas Senate on Tuesday tentatively approved a controversial "bathroom" bill with a 21-10 vote.

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  Mar 14, 2017

  Pastors, Counselor at Christian Boot Camp Get 20 Years for Child Abuse

  Two pastors and a counselor who led a church-run boot camp for troubled teens in Alabama were each sentenced to 20 years in prison for their role in the abuse of multiple children left under their care.

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  Mar 14, 2017

  SBC's Frank Page, Russell Moore Say They 'Fully Support' Each Other After Firing Rumors

  Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee President Frank S. Page and the organization's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission President Russell Moore said in a joint statement Monday that they "fully support" each other after a controversial report in The Washington Post suggested Page would ask Moore to resign due to simmering political tensions.

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  Mar 14, 2017

  Christian Mom Cancels $6K Disney World Trip, Boycotts Company Over Gay Character in 'Beauty and the Beast'

  A conservative Christian mother from Louisiana has cancelled her family's $6,000 trip to Disney World and boycotted the company over what she sees as its aggressive promotion of an LGBT agenda after it announced the live action version of "Beauty and the Beast" would include an "exclusively gay moment."

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  Mar 14, 2017

  Tim Keller to Receive Princeton Seminary Award but Some Alumni Are Unhappy

  Tim Keller, founding pastor of the multi-campus Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, is set to receive the 2017 Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Witness at Princeton Theological Seminary next month but some alumni are disgruntled because of his church's position on women and LGBT individuals in ministry.