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  Jan 24, 2017

  Juanita Bynum Defends Eddie Long, Calls for Mercy; Says She Prayed for Late Preacher and Victims

  Popular televangelist Juanita Bynum called on her social media followers to show mercy when discussing the life of the late Bishop Eddie Long and said she prayed for him and his victims.

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  Jan 24, 2017

  'God Is a Restorer:' Pastor and Wife Who Lost Two Sons in Crash Now Expecting Twins

  Nearly two years after suffering the loss of their two sons in a tragic crash in 2015, a North Carolina pastor and his wife announced on Sunday that God was blessing them with two more this summer.

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  Jan 23, 2017

  Florida Pastor Forced to Flee Naked After Parishioner Finds Him in Bed With Wife

  The Rev. O. Jermaine Simmons Sr., pastor of the popular Jacob Chapel Baptist Church in Tallahassee, Florida, who recently authored a book focused on issues of godly manhood, was sent running for his life last Tuesday after one of his parishioners found him in bed with his wife.

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  Jan 23, 2017

  Eddie Long's Church Declares 'This Is Our House,' Shares Memories Ahead of Funeral

  Members of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, gathered on Sunday for the first time since the death of their leader, controversial Bishop Eddie Long, to share heartfelt memories and vowed that the church would not die with him ahead of his memorial service on Wednesday.

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  Jan 20, 2017

  Michigan Pastor Prays President Trump Will Have 'Wisdom of Solomon, Vision of Joseph, Meekness of Christ'

  Bishop Wayne T. Jackson of Great Faith Ministries International, who hosted President Donald Trump at his Detroit church despite opposition from some African-Americans last September, asked God in a prayer at the inauguration ceremony of the 45th president on Friday to endow him with "the wisdom of Solomon, the vision of Joseph and the meekness of Christ."

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  Jan 20, 2017

  Donald Trump Is 'Morally Unqualified' but Christians Don't Need Qualified Gov't, John Piper Says

  As America gets ready for the presidency of New York billionaire Donald Trump, John Piper, founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary called the president-elect a "morally unqualified" leader but said Christians have never required a morally qualified leader to thrive.

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  Jan 19, 2017

  Story of Centino Kemp, Man Who Claims Eddie Long Raped Him at 16, Draws Fresh Attention

  The story of Centino Kemp, 25, who alleges in a tell-all book that the late Bishop Eddie Long initiated him into a six-year sexual relationship with rape when he was just 16 and then threatened his life when he tried to leave, is drawing renewed interest from the public in the aftermath of the preacher's death.

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  Jan 18, 2017

  Eddie Long Was Benefactor but Church Failed His Victims, Jamal Bryant Says

  While thanking the late controversial megachurch preacher Eddie Long for being a benefactor who helped pay his way at Morehouse College, Pastor Jamal Bryant of Northwest Baltimore's popular Empowerment Temple, said the church failed his victims.

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  Jan 18, 2017

  Church Stops Praying for Donald Trump by Name to Avoid Traumatizing Worshipers

  Mike Kinman, rector of All Saints Church, an Episcopal congregation in Pasadena, California, has announced that his congregation will no longer pray for elected leaders by name to avoid traumatizing worshipers with the name of President-elect Donald Trump.

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  Jan 17, 2017

  Church in Shock After Christian Wife Allegedly Shoots Husband and Two Daughters Dead in Bed

  Members of the Grace Christian Fellowship church in Williamsburg, Kentucky, were left wracked with grief on the weekend after the wife of one of the church's founding families allegedly fatally shot her husband and two daughters in the head as they slept at home on Friday.