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  May 8, 2020

  Former So. Baptist Pastor Darrin Patrick dies of 'self-inflicted gunshot wound' at 49

  Darrin Patrick, who founded The Journey megachurch in Missouri and served as a teaching pastor at the South Caroline-based multi-site Seacoast Church, died at the age of 49 in what appears to be a suicide, the church said Friday.

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  May 4, 2020

  Jacksonville LGBT ordinance struck down

  A Florida appellate court has ruled that amendments made to Jacksonville’s anti-discrimination ordinance by adding sexual orientation and gender identity are “null and void.” The city says it will fight to defend the law.

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  May 4, 2020

  Americans urged to pray remotely for revival, God's glory on Nat'l Day of Prayer

  On the 69th National Day of Prayer to be observed Thursday, the Southern Baptist Convention is calling on Americans to join in a nationwide, remote prayer gathering for spiritual awakening and revival, and to pray specifically for seven centers of influence.

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  May 4, 2020

  Pastor Ed Young reopens megachurch at limited capacity, preaches on ‘the new normal’

  After planning for about a month ahead of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s announcement lifting the stay-at-home order, Pastor Ed Young and his wife, Lisa, reopened their Grapevine megachurch, limiting services to a quarter occupancy Saturday and Sunday. The sermon was on “the new normal.”

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  May 4, 2020

  NYC Council speaker demands Samaritan’s Purse to leave over homosexuality views

  While Samaritan's Purse has treated hundreds of COVID-19 patients at its field hospital in Central Park, New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson demanded that the Christian charity leave the city over its biblical views on homosexuality.

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  May 4, 2020

  UK evangelical Christian adoption agency to fight discrimination claim in court

  A Christian fostering agency in the U.K. is taking a government regulator to court for deeming its policy of only placing children with committed evangelical Christians unlawfully discriminatory against same-sex couples.

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  May 3, 2020

  Court allows Ky. church's drive-in services, says ban has 'potential hallmarks of discrimination'

  A federal court on Saturday allowed Maryville Baptist Church and its pastor, Dr. Jack Roberts, in Kentucky to hold drive-in services, prohibiting the enforcement of the state’s COVID-19 orders.

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  May 3, 2020

  Pastor reacts to shooting of church board member killed over stimulus check

  A 45-year-old woman, who is a U.S. postal carrier and a board member of a church in Indiana, was shot dead as a resident supposedly hadn’t received a stimulus check from her deliveries. The pastor of her church expressed shock. 

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  May 2, 2020

  Pakistani Christian students will be forced to study Quran if gov.’s plans move ahead

  Punjab Gov. Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar, the chancellor of universities, said students, even non-Muslims, would be required to study and attend lectures on the Quran, which he said contains the "complete code of life."

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  May 2, 2020

  Trump admin. says PPP money won't be going to Planned Parenthood, 'abortion industry'

  The Trump administration has ensured that funds from the new Paycheck Protection Program meant to help small businesses amid the COVID-19 crisis don’t go to the “abortion industry.”