Leonardo Blair

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  Oct 6, 2016

  Megachurches in America Spend Half Their Budget on Salaries Kept Mostly Secret, Study Finds

  Nearly 50 percent of the budgets of large churches funded primarily by congregational giving goes to paying staff salaries, and a majority of them keep their congregations in the dark about the specifics of these payments, according to the 2016 Large Church Salary Study from the Leadership Network.

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  Oct 6, 2016

  Popular Pastor Pushed for Parole of Daughter's Ex-Con Husband Who Killed Their 4 Children

  Faith Green, 39, a Christian mother who was tortured by her 49-year-old ex-con husband Gregory Green, then forced to watch as he allegedly murdered their four children last month in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, has been revealed to be the daughter of a popular pastor who had pushed for her husband's parole.

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  Oct 5, 2016

  World's Longest Marriage Ends in Death of Husband; Wife Calls It a 'Blessing'

  Karam Chand, a U.K. man believed to be one half of the world's longest married couple, died Friday just a month before his 111th birthday after 90 years of marriage to his 103-year-old wife, Kartari Chand.

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  Oct 5, 2016

  Actor Ben Stiller Reveals He Got Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer and Won, Now Advocate for Early PSA Testing

  Almost five years since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force made a controversial recommendation against prostate-specific antigen-based screening for prostate cancer, actor Ben Stiller jumped into that debate on Tuesday revealing how an early PSA test helped him beat a prostate cancer diagnosis two years ago.

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  Oct 4, 2016

  Ex-Cross Pointe Pastor Pete Wilson Takes New Job as President of Marketing and Tech Firm

  Less than a month after his resignation as senior pastor of the multi-campus Cross Point Church in Nashville, Tennessee, Pete Wilson, who also authored the best-selling book "Plan B," is starting a new chapter in his professional life as president of marketing and technology firm, The A Group.

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  Oct 4, 2016

  Church Elder's Wife Fatally Shoots Him, Tries to Kill Herself After 40 Years of Marriage

  Forty years of marriage between a respected South Carolina church elder and his wife ended in tragedy Saturday morning after his wife, described as a good Christian by friends and family, allegedly shot him dead then tried to take her life as well.

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  Oct 3, 2016

  Police Tell Woman She Can't Pray Inside Home, Constitution Is 'Just a Piece of Paper'

  Mary Anne Sause, a Louisburg, Kansas, woman who says she was ordered by local police to stop praying in her home and told that a copy of the Constitution she showed them was "just a piece of paper," has appealed a district court's ruling that officers did not violate her First Amendment.

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  Oct 3, 2016

  Pastor Arrested for Alleged Assault on Daughter, Church Says Kidney Failure Triggered Behavior

  Light of the Word Christian Center in Topeka, Kansas, asked supporters of the ministry to pray for the church's founding Pastor, Greg Varney, after he was arrested last Wednesday on aggravated assault charges stemming from an incident involving one of his daughters.

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  Oct 1, 2016

  Task Force for Global Health Wins $2M Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, World's Largest Humanitarian Award

  The Task Force for Global Health, a Georgia-based international nonprofit focused on improving the health of vulnerable populations around the world, was recognized for their work Friday with the world's largest humanitarian award, the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, which comes with a $2 million purse.

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  Sep 30, 2016

  Christian Organization Apologizes After Keynote Speaker Argues That Homosexuality Is a Disability

  Michael Rea, president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, apologized Saturday to anyone who may have been offended by a recent presentation by leading Christian philosopher Richard Swinburne at the 2016 Midwest Society of Christian Philosophers in which Swinburne said homosexuality could be considered a disability.