Leonardo Blair

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  Dec 11, 2023

  Parishioners mourn after Nebraska priest fatally stabbed in rectory

  Parishioners at the St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, were left in mourning after their priest, Rev. Stephen Gutgsell, was fatally stabbed at the church during a break-in Sunday morning.

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  Dec 8, 2023

  Christian school students, airman lift car to save mother and children after crash

  Almost two dozen students from Layton Christian Academy and an airman from the Hill Air Force Base became real life heroes Tuesday when they lifted a car in the parking lot of their school to save a mother and her two young children who got pinned underneath the vehicle after they got hit by another car.

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  Dec 8, 2023

  Brian Houston announces 2024 comeback with new online ministry and church

  Nearly two years after Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston formally resigned as global senior pastor of the megachurch network amid revelations that two women made allegations of misconduct against him, he is getting ready to make a comeback with a new online ministry and church in 2024.

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  Dec 7, 2023

  NH pastor dies by suicide after being fired over child sexual abuse allegations

  Jarrett Booker, a father, husband and pastor of students and worship at Nashua Baptist Church in New Hampshire, left his family, friends and church community with a double dose of shock and grief when he died by suicide two days after being fired for allegedly sexually abusing minors. He was 37.

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  Dec 6, 2023

  Cash giving hit 10-year low in 2022 for churches except the richest ones: ECFA report

  Churches, in general, experienced a drop in cash donations for the first time in 10 years in 2022, except for those pulling in revenue of $20 million or more, data from the 2023 Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability State of Giving report show.

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  Dec 5, 2023

  Mike Bickle accuser goes public with allegations IHOPKC calls ‘unsubstantiated’

  A woman who alleges International House of Prayer Kansas City founder Mike Bickle wooed her with Scripture when she was just 19, and he was 42, said he made her a kept woman for several years as he was establishing his ministry and did everything with her sexually except intercourse.

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  Dec 2, 2023

  Perry Noble says he never thought he would pastor again, announces new Second Chance campus

  Approximately seven years after he was fired from NewSpring Church in South Carolina for alcohol abuse and other "unfortunate choices and decisions," Perry Noble is thanking God for allowing him back into the megachurch space with the announcement of the Greenville campus of his Second Chance Church.

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  Dec 1, 2023

  Lesbian bishop who Carlton Pearson wanted to speak at funeral says Transformation Church barred her from preaching eulogy

  Presiding prelate of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, Bishop Yvette Flunder, who late former megachurch pastor Carlton Pearson said he wanted to speak at his homegoing service shortly before he passed on Nov.19, says Pastor Michael Todd’s Transformation Church barred her from preaching a eulogy at their service in Pearson’s honor on Friday due to a dispute over inclusion.

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  Dec 1, 2023

  A record nearly 50,000 Americans, mostly men, died by suicide in 2022

  Nearly 50,000 Americans committed suicide in 2022, the "highest number ever recorded in the United States," according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which shows that the majority of suicides were men. 

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  Dec 1, 2023

  Televangelist Mark Barclay’s son-in-law accused of criminal sexual conduct with person under 13

  The Rev. James Randolph, a minister with Living Word International Church in Midland, Michigan, and the son-in-law of televangelist Mark Barclay of Mark Barclay Ministries, has been charged with several counts of criminal sexual conduct, including one allegedly involving a person younger than 13.