Leonardo Blair

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  Oct 20, 2023

  Pepperdine to grant degrees posthumously to 4 Christian students killed in crash

  Pepperdine University announced at a prayer service Thursday that four seniors at the Christian school who died in a grisly crash caused by an out-of-control driver along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California, on Tuesday night, will all be awarded their degrees posthumously at the end of the academic year.

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  Oct 19, 2023

  Joran van der Sloot claims he's now born-again Christian after confessing Natalie Holloway murder

  Eighteen years after the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalie Holloway during a senior high school class trip to Aruba, Joran van der Sloot, the man long suspected to be her killer, has confessed to murdering her after she rejected his sexual advances on a beach in the former Dutch colony but says he is now a born-again Christian.

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  Oct 19, 2023

  4 Pepperdine women dead after speeding driver crashes into Christian university students on California highway

  Members of the Pepperdine University community are expected to continue prayer vigils Thursday morning on the California campus of the Christian school after four female students were killed when a 22-year-old driver crashed his car into them along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu on Tuesday night.

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  Oct 19, 2023

  Denton Bible Church Pastor Tommy Nelson announces retirement plan

  Bestselling author and leader of Denton Bible Church in Texas, Pastor Tommy Nelson, says he is ready to transition away from the helm of his megachurch and turn it over to a team of younger leaders a year after confessing that the church failed to prevent the abuse of multiple young girls by a former youth pastor by not involving women when evaluating abuse allegations.

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  Oct 17, 2023

  Liberty U threatened with $37.5M fine over alleged Clery Act violations, president says

  Liberty University President Dondi E. Costin says the private Evangelical institution has been threatened with an "unprecedented" $37.5 million fine by the U.S. Department of Education for alleged Clery Act violations following the publication of a leaked report accusing a former president of rape and other school officials of destroying evidence.

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  Oct 16, 2023

  Son of Texas megachurch pastor ordered to pay woman he gave herpes $2.45M

  Rev. Ralph West II, the son of the founder and senior pastor of The Church Without Walls in Houston, Texas, has been ordered to pay $2.45 million to a woman he knowingly infected with herpes.

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  Oct 13, 2023

  International Bible Way suspends pastor accused of raping family member 600 times

  International Bible Way Church of Jesus Christ, a South Carolina-based Christian denomination that claims some 600 churches globally, has suspended Bishop Robert Carter, the leader of their Gulf Coast Diocese who was charged with raping a family member at least 600 times beginning when she was 7. He is also alleged to have fathered a child with the victim.

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  Oct 12, 2023

  Police officer involved in death of deacon returning home from Bible study is fired

  Kiran Kimbrough, a police officer who used a stun gun that triggered the death of 62-year-old Johnny Hollman, who served as chairman of the deacon board at The Lively Stones of God Ministries Church in  Atlanta, Georgia, in August, has been fired as the minister’s family and supporters continue to demand his prosecution.

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  Oct 11, 2023

  Father, 3 sons imprisoned for selling toxic ‘Miracle Mineral Solution’ through fake church

  Just over two months after they were found guilty of using a fake online church to dupe consumers into purchasing more than $1 million worth of a "Miracle Mineral Solution" that turned out to be nothing more than industrial bleach to cure ailments such as COVID-19, a Florida man and three sons have been sentenced to multiple years in prison.

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  Oct 11, 2023

  Gunman who shot pastor told ministers not to pray for him as he died: eyewitness

  As South African police continue to investigate the fatal shooting of 22-year-old rising star preacher, Dwayne Gordon, inside the Eagle Christian Center in Newlands on Friday, an eyewitness to his murder says the gunman who fired the bullet that struck the young preacher in the neck, ordered ministers at the church not to pray for him as he bled to death.