Leonardo Blair

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  Jul 13, 2023

  Youth pastor who filmed minors in church bathroom also filmed brides changing at wedding parties

  A former youth pastor who was arrested last month for allegedly filming girls as young as 14 in the bathroom of a South Carolina church, was slapped with 24 new charges of criminal sexual conduct, bringing his total so far to 70 as investigators say he also recorded women in bridal parties changing their clothes.

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  Jul 12, 2023

  Church of the Highlands dismisses suggestion it is running $4.5M retreat for fallen pastors

  Church of the Highlands, Alabama’s largest church, which is also ranked as the second largest congregation in the nation with some 60,000 reported attendees in 2022, has dismissed reports suggesting it's running a $4.5 million retreat center for fallen pastors called The Lodge at Grants Mill at its Grants Mill campus.

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  Jul 11, 2023

  Black So. Baptist churches challenge denomination's vote to ban women in pastoral leadership

  A network of more than 4,000 predominantly African American churches affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention believes a recent vote by SBC messengers in favor of banning women from serving as a "pastor of any kind" is an "unnecessary infringement upon the autonomy of the local church"

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  Jul 10, 2023

  Man charged with hate crime after toppling Virgin Mary statue at Buffalo church

  A man who was recorded toppling a statue of the Virgin Mary at the St. Rose of Lima Church in Buffalo, New York, has been arrested and charged with a hate crime.

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  Jul 10, 2023

  5 more Jehovah’s Witnesses arrested for sexual assault, exploitation of children

  Following the filing of sexual abuse charges against nine members of Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations in October 2022 and February 2023, Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced Friday that she filed charges against five more men in the religious organization for sexual assault and exploitation of children.

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  Jul 7, 2023

  Pastor Greg Locke repents, scrubs thousands of videos from Facebook to 'minimize collateral damage'

  Nearly four months after revealing that he got too involved with politics to the point where it was overshadowing his ministry, Greg Locke, the internet famous leader of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, announced that he scrubbed thousands of videos with billions of views from his Facebook page to minimize some of the “collateral damage” they caused.

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  Jul 7, 2023

  Pastor, Al Sharpton’s brother gets 30 months for drug trafficking, tax evasion

  Pastor Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow, the troubled younger half-brother of civil rights activist Al Sharpton and founder of felon voting rights advocacy organization, The Ordinary People Society in Dothan, Alabama,  was sentenced to 30 months in prison Thursday for drug trafficking, income tax evasion, and lying to obtain Social Security disability benefits.

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  Jul 7, 2023

  Record share of 40-year-olds in America have never been married: study

  A record number of 40-year-olds in America have never been married, and they are more likely to be men, African Americans and those who possess a level of education equivalent to a high school diploma or less, a new analysis by the Pew Research Center shows.

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  Jul 6, 2023

  Youth pastor who filmed underaged girls in church bathroom now facing 46 counts

  Daniel Kellan Mayfield, the former youth pastor at First Baptist Gowensville in Landrum, South Carolina, who was arrested last month for allegedly recording girls, many of whom were underage, inside the church’s bathroom, is now facing 46 charges of criminal sexual conduct, court records show.

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  Jul 5, 2023

  Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, wife separate so they can see other people

  While they have no plans to divorce or stop living together in the same house, failed 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, have announced they have formally separated so they can see other people.