Leonardo Blair

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  Sep 13, 2023

  Paula White claims she helped Mandela abolish apartheid, but foundation has no record of work

  Former President Donald Trump’s spiritual advisor, televangelist Paula White-Cain, recently claimed she helped Nelson Mandela abolish apartheid in South Africa, but his foundation says they have no evidence she engaged in such work with the iconic world leader who died in December 2013.

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  Sep 13, 2023

  Most Americans say Confederate memorials should be left in public; blacks disagree: study

  Despite ongoing racial reconciliation efforts in some churches and society in general, a yawning divide still endures between black and white Americans over how Confederate memorials should be treated, a new study from the Public Religion Research Institute finds.

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  Sep 12, 2023

  Florida now accepting Christian-backed CLT as alternative to SAT and ACT at public universities

  The Classic Learning Test, an exam that is said to be more rooted in Western classical and Christian traditions and is currently used in undergraduate admissions at more than 200 mostly Christian colleges across the country, can now be used as an alternative to SAT and ACT, for admission to all universities in the State University System of Florida, the system’s Board of Governors announced Friday.

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  Sep 12, 2023

  Uncommitted Christians causing ‘catastrophic decline in biblical worldview in America’: Barna

  Millions of uncommitted Christians are causing a "catastrophic decline in biblical worldview in America" because they have been poorly discipled in their faith and often don't know how to pass on biblical values to their children, research in a new book from veteran Christian researcher George Barna shows.

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  Sep 11, 2023

  5 Christian reactions to Coco Gauff’s prayer after winning 1st Grand Slam title at US Open

  Many Christians who saw Coco Gauff’s prayer after winning the U.S. Open and know how vocal she has been about her faith responded when ESPN’s flagship program noted in a post on X that she had merely taken a moment to “soak it all in" after winning her first Grand Slam title.

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  Sep 9, 2023

  Whistleblower alleges Boy Scouts of America blocked child protection measure due to fear of Mormons

  The former youth protection director at the Boy Scouts of America says the embattled youth organization blocked his efforts to institute child protection measures due to fear of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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  Sep 8, 2023

  Married pastor accused of robbing 5 women, sexually assaulting 2

  The wife of a longtime Illinois preacher reeled in shocked Wednesday as she learned that her husband of 11 years has been accused of robbing five women and sexually assaulting two of them.

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  Sep 7, 2023

  Carlton Pearson, former megachurch pastor who says there is no Hell, brought to 'death's door' battling cancer

  Bishop Carlton Pearson, an affiliate minister at All Souls Unitarian Church, who was once one of the most sought-after Pentecostal speakers in America before he lost his megachurch in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 20 years ago for declaring there is no Hell, says he was recently brought to “death’s door,” battling illnesses related to cancer.

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  Sep 7, 2023

  Church faces financial ruin as court orders repayment of $500K in ill-gotten donations

  A 120-year-old Illinois church could be forced to shutter and sell off their assets if they fail to raise $300,000 in the next month to pay off a $487,000 federal court judgement against them to recover “long gone” donations a businessman convicted of running a Ponzi scheme, poured into their coffers over 10 years.

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  Sep 6, 2023

  Ebenezer Baptist Pastor Sen. Raphael Warnock may have violated disclosure laws, watchdog suggests

  The leader of Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia, might have violated federal disclosure laws or Senate ethics rules when he accepted $125,000 in deferred compensation from his church in 2022, according to conservative watchdog group the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust.