Leonardo Blair

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  Jun 19, 2023

  How sexting destroyed a young megachurch pastor’s marriage and ministry

  In a recent presentation at the Bob Russell Ministries Mentoring Retreat, Patrick Garcia, a former lead pastor at the 7,000-member Crossroads Christian Church and The Hills Church in Indiana, compared his fall out of ministry to a distracted truck driver who was involved in a deadly crash.

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  Jun 17, 2023

  How a cancer treatment hospital in Mexico is mixing faith, food and science to save lives

  At the Oasis of Hope Hospital located about seven miles away from the San Ysidro border crossing in San Diego, California, patients who say they have been blessed by the work of the alternative cancer treatment clinic are singing praises to both God and the medical team helping to keep them alive.

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  Jun 16, 2023

  Christian missionary sentenced to 25 years for allegedly infecting preschooler with STD

  Jordan Webb, a married Christian missionary and father from Iowa convicted of sexual abuse in April after authorities presented circumstantial evidence that he likely infected a preschooler with gonorrhea, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison although he insists he is innocent.

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  Jun 15, 2023

  Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston covered up father’s abuse of boy: prosecutor

  Embattled Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston intentionally covered up his late father Frank Houston's sexual abuse of a boy and shielded him from criminal prosecution to protect the church's image and likely knew about a $10,000 payment that was made to silence the victim, a prosecutor alleged during closing arguments in an Australian court Thursday.

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  Jun 15, 2023

  Many American atheists hide their unbelief due to social stigma in Christian culture: study

  Many American atheists still struggling with the stigma associated with their lack of faith and often choose to hide their unbelief due to social stigma, according to a new study published by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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  Jun 14, 2023

  Abigail Zwerner, teacher shot by first grader, resigns; lawyer says she was fired

  The first-grade teacher in Virginia who filed a $40 million lawsuit against school administrators after she was shot by a first-grade student in January has reportedly resigned from her job. But her attorney says she was fired.

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  Jun 14, 2023

  Restaurant owner allegedly used bogus priest to get employees to confess ‘workplace sins’

  Owners of Che Garibaldi Inc., which operates the Taqueria Garibaldi Mexican restaurant in Sacramento, California, have agreed to pay some $140,000 in back wages and damages for shortchanging 35 employees and attempting to use a fake priest to get them to confess to “workplace ‘sins’” while on the job following legal action by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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  Jun 13, 2023

  Pastor’s son sentenced for pointing gun at church member during dispute

  Cedric Taylor, the son of Bishop Jerry Wayne Taylor of Holy City Church of God in Christ Memphis, Tennessee, where former Vice President Mike Pence delivered a campaign speech in 2020,  was slapped with a suspended sentence Friday for pulling a gun at a former longtime member inside the church in February.

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  Jun 13, 2023

  Pastor, former director of food bank allegedly paid employee for sex acts, stole thousands

  James Gill, a longtime minister who was most recently the senior pastor of Liberty Baptist Church in Gallatin, Tennessee, and served as the director of the Sumner County Food Bank has been indicted for stealing more than $250,000 from the food bank he founded and paying a volunteer for sex acts.

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  Jun 13, 2023

  Majority of worshipers highly satisfied with virtual services but in-person church is still preferred: study

  While a majority of U.S. adults who worship virtually say they are highly satisfied, most still prefer in-person worship services, though a significant minority has adapted to worshiping virtually exclusively, a new study from the Pew Research Center shows.