Leonardo Blair

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  Jun 9, 2022

  Leader of Mexico’s largest evangelical church gets 17 years for child sex abuse

  Naasón Joaquín García, the leader of Mexico’s largest evangelical church, was sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting three minor girls from his flock.

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  Jun 9, 2022

  How the digital revolution is disrupting the Church and forcing it out of buildings

  As online Christian engagement continues to expand rapidly through the use of digital technologies, it has coincided with a staggering disruption in physical church membership which some technology experts say will continue to displace physical churches that refuse to adapt to the digital revolution.

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  Jun 8, 2022

  Waitress gets $777 tip after prayer then donates it to her church

  A New Orleans waitress who received a $777 tip from a customer shortly after praying to God to help her church repair their broken air conditioning system has donated the entire amount to her congregation.

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  Jun 8, 2022

  Pastor calls murder-suicide at Cornerstone Church ‘worst day of a lot of our lives’

  Speaking to his congregation on Sunday, the lead pastor of Cornerstone Church in Ames, Iowa, couldn't find the words to describe the heartbreak his church has experienced after two college students were shot dead in the church’s parking lot last Thursday by a gunman who took his own life.

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  Jun 8, 2022

  Celebration Church sues to evict Stovall and Kerri Weems from million dollar waterfront home

  The 12,000-member Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, continued its legal sparring with founding Pastor Stovall Weems and his wife, Kerri, in a new lawsuit earlier this month demanding that the couple vacate a million dollar waterfront home owned by the church after Weems completely resigned from all work with the church in April.

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  Jun 7, 2022

  Second mistrial declared for man charged with killing pastor’s wife Amanda Blackburn

  A trial set for a 25-year-old man accused of the 2015 murder of Amanda Blackburn, the pregnant wife of Pastor Davey Blackburn, who led the now-defunct Resonate Church in Indianapolis, has ended in a mistrial for the second time after jurors learned details about the case.

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  Jun 7, 2022

  Ex-megachurch pastor Bruxy Cavey arrested for sexual assault; police say there could be more victims

  Nearly three months after he confessed to sexual misconduct and resigned as the primary teaching pastor of one of Canada’s largest megachurches, police arrested and charged Bruxy Cavey with sexual assault and said they believe there could be more victims.

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  Jun 3, 2022

  Rick Warren announces Saddleback Church successor, says he’s stepping aside for next generation

  Starting in September, Andy Wood, who serves as lead pastor of Echo.Church in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Stacie, will officially become the new lead pastor of the California-based Saddleback Church, co-founders Rick Warren and his wife, Kay, have announced.

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  Jun 2, 2022

  Cora Jakes Coleman addresses adoption rumor after ex-husband’s arrest for sexual abuse

  A spokesperson for Cora Jakes Coleman, the eldest daughter of megachurch Pastor T.D. Jakes, called online allegations that she manipulated a vulnerable Texas mother into giving up her child for adoption “slanderous” on Thursday while insisting that all adoptions made by the 34-year-old divorcée were legally executed.

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  Jun 2, 2022

  I went to church in the metaverse and this is what I found

  After investing more than $300 to purchase the Meta Quest 2 (previously Oculus Quest 2) VR headset, creating an avatar as close as possible to my likeness, and dressing in my best virtual clothes, I went to church last weekend with just a few clicks.