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  Jun 30, 2023

  Elevation Church withdraws affiliation with Southern Baptist Convention

  The more than 10,000-member Elevation Church in North Carolina, led by celebrity preacher Steven Furtick, has withdrawn its affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention after more than 20 years of cooperation with the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

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  Jun 28, 2023

  Prominent jail chaplain accused of punishing minor relative with repeated sexual assaults

  David DeBerge, a pastor who served as a chaplain with the Jail Chaplaincy of Kenosha County Inc., the American Legion Post 21, and works part-time at the Kenosha YMCA, is now facing up to life in prison for allegedly sexually assaulting a female relative beginning in the third grade as a form of punishment.

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  Jun 27, 2023

  Christian couple found murdered on 50th wedding anniversary

  A beloved couple who didn’t show up for their 50th wedding anniversary celebration at Our Lady Help of Christians Church as expected on Sunday were found brutally stabbed and beaten to death along with the wife’s mother inside their home in Newton, Massachusetts.

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  Jun 27, 2023

  Roam Ministry leader Jonathan Frazier fatally shot protecting patron at Orlando banquet hall

  Family and friends of Pastor Jonathan Frazier of Roam Ministry  in Orlando, Florida, are now in mourning after police say he became the second person to die in the aftermath of a shooting during an event held at a banquet hall operated by him and his wife on Saturday.

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  Jun 27, 2023

  Pastor who shot wife at hotel constantly beat and threatened to kill her: report

  Danny Prenell Jr., the 25-year-old senior pastor of Bright Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church in Pineville, Louisiana, who shot his wife and then himself at a hotel in McComb, Mississippi, in the presence of their three children last Wednesday, had a history of violence against his wife prior to the shooting, court records show.

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  Jun 27, 2023

  Church members say they fired their pastor, but he refused to leave after judge overruled the decision

  Members of the 118-year-old New Central Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, say they voted to fire their pastor after accusing him of behaving like a dictator and a laundry list of offenses, including misappropriating $16,000 meant for emergency church expenses, but he refuses to leave after a judge overruled their decision.

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  Jun 26, 2023

  Pastor shoots wife, himself at hotel months after celebrating first year as leader

  Just two days before he shot his wife and mother of their three children at the Hampton Inn & Suites McComb in Mississippi last Wednesday, a 25-year-old Louisiana pastor declared to his friends and family on Facebook that he was flawed but still favored by God.

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  Jun 23, 2023

  Can a Christian talk show improve health disparities for the black community?

  “Do you believe that the Black church has been able to really embrace and understand and minister to persons who have mental illness?” Conference Of National Black Churches President Jacqui Burton asked the Rev. Kim Murray Cruse in a recent episode of a new talk show on the Impact Network called “Healing & Hope.”

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  Jun 21, 2023

  Detroit ends lawsuit against Marvin Winan’s Perfecting Church with new agreement

  After months of public sparring, officials in the city of Detroit have agreed to end a lawsuit against Grammy-winning gospel singer Marvin Winans and his Perfecting Church in Michigan for failing to complete their 18-year-old new church project at Woodward Ave & W 7 Mile Road in a timely manner.

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  Jun 21, 2023

  Youth group praises God after narrowly escaping fire on church bus

  Two adults  and 11 children from the Anchor Church youth group in Houston, Texas, are thanking God after they narrowly evacuated a van they were travelling in to attend summer camp moments before it erupted in flames on I-610 at Wayside on Tuesday.