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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.

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  Jun 21, 2023

  It’s ‘hellish doctrine’ to believe ‘God wants you to be happy, never suffer': Pastor Kent Christmas

  Founding pastor of Regeneration Nashville, Kent Christmas, has slammed the idea that God wants Christians to be happy and “never suffer” as a “hellish doctrine” being driven by lazy Christians.

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  Jun 21, 2023

  Well-being of pastors drops significantly, especially in having true friends: study

  In key measures of well-being such as physical, mental, emotional, and overall health pastors have suffered significant declines over the last seven years, especially when it comes to having true friends, a new report from Barna Research shows.

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  Jun 20, 2023

  NYC Mayor Eric Adams says God told him to talk about faith in public

  Calling himself “the perfectly imperfect child of God that shows the power of God,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in a fiery Father’s Day speech on Sunday that he won’t stop talking about God and the importance of faith in society, despite attacks from the media about it, because God told him to do it.

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  Jun 19, 2023

  Ohio father executes 3 young sons, confesses he planned killings for months

  While his father believes he just “snapped,” authorities say 32-year-old Chad Doerman confessed he planned for months before he lined up his three young sons at his home in Clermont County, Ohio, last Thursday and shot them execution style with a rifle three days before Father’s Day.