Leonardo Blair

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  Oct 10, 2023

  Pastor, father of 5 suffers fatal heart attack during St. Jude Ironman triathlon

  A Tennessee pastor and father five died Saturday after suffering a heart attack during the third annual St. Jude IRONMAN 70.3 Memphis triathlon meant for “courageous people who aren't afraid to push their limits.”

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  Oct 9, 2023

  Pastor arrested for allegedly raping family member at least 600 times since age 7, getting her pregnant

  Bishop Robert L. Carter, a husband, father of four and high-ranking leader in the International Bible Way Church of Jesus Christ, Inc., USA., has been arrested after allegedly raping a family member at least 600 times since she was 7, getting her pregnant as a teenager and forcing her to give up their baby.

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  Oct 9, 2023

  Texas pastor stuck in Israel as war erupts and US airlines cancel flights

  The Rev. George Mason, the former senior pastor of the Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, who had gone to Israel to observe peacebuilding work between Israelis and Palestinians, is now stuck in the country as war erupted Saturday after Hamas, a Sunni Islamist terrorist organization, launched an attack against Israel that has killed at least 900 Israelis and left has 687 Palestinians dead in retaliatory airstrikes.

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  Oct 9, 2023

  Preacher fatally shot during service; church says ‘faith remains unshaken’

  Leaders of the Eagle Christian Center in Newlands, South Africa, said the congregation’s “faith remains unshaken” after a young preacher popularly known as Prophet Dwayne Gordon, was shot dead and two others were wounded during a robbery at the church on Friday.

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  Oct 5, 2023

  Missouri pastor killed in chemical truck crash 3 months after church installation

  Less than four months after he was officially installed as the settled pastor of St. Peter’s United Church of Christ in New Haven, Missouri, the Rev. Dan Smith was among five people, including two children, who were killed last Friday when a semi-truck containing a load of anhydrous ammonia overturned in and spilled half its contents in central Illinois. He was 67.

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  Oct 5, 2023

  Oral Roberts University gets historic $2.2M grant from Education Dept. to help at-risk students

  Oral Roberts University, a private evangelical school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been awarded a historic grant of more than $2.2 million by the U.S. Department of education to help its growing population of at-risk students triggered in part by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  Oct 4, 2023

  Liberty U says preliminary DOE report citing alleged rape by past president has ‘significant errors’

  Liberty University officials insisted Tuesday that the findings of a leaked preliminary report from the U.S. Department of Education citing a raft of violations of the Clery Act, including an accusation of rape against a former president and the destroying of evidence, contains “significant errors, misstatements, and unsupported conclusions.”

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  Oct 4, 2023

  Son of former Vineyard Church pastors jailed on charges of sexual abuse of 5 teenage girls

  Jackson Gatlin, the former young adult and online community pastor at The Vineyard Church in Duluth, Minnesota, whose parents Michael and Brenda Gatlin resigned from the church this year after he was fired, was jailed Tuesday on charges of sexually abusing five teenage girls during his tenure at the church.

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  Oct 3, 2023

  Fellowship Church places Pastor Albert Tate on leave for ‘inappropriate' texts, comments

  Albert Tate, the charismatic founder and leader of the Evangelical Fellowship Church, which draws thousands of people to worship every Sunday at Monrovia High School in Los Angeles County, California, has been placed on a leave of absence over "inappropriate text messages and questionable comments."

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  Oct 3, 2023

  ND state Sen. Doug Larsen, wife and sons killed in tragic Utah plane crash

  Decorated military aviator and North Dakota State Sen. Doug Larsen, his wife, Amy, and their two young sons died tragically Sunday after a single-engine aircraft the senator was flying crashed shortly after he took off from the Canyonlands Regional Airport in Utah.