Leonardo Blair

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  Oct 8, 2021

  At 110, Viola Brown credits faith for helping her through wars, pandemics and segregation

  Viola Roberts Lampkin Brown was an infant when the “Titanic” sank into the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. She was not yet 3 when World War I began. She was still 6 when the Flu pandemic started in February 1918. And by the time she was 7, Brown was working as a domestic and would spend decades living through segregation.

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  Oct 7, 2021

  Federal judge blocks Texas abortion law drawing praise from Biden admin., rebuke from pro-lifers

  A federal judge on Wednesday granted a request from the Justice Department for a temporary restraining order against Texas’ controversial law that bans most abortions in the state after six weeks gestation, drawing swift praise from the Biden administration and rebuke from pro-life advocates.

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  Oct 7, 2021

  New lawsuit challenges NY vaccine mandate, cites Gov. Hochul's comments at megachurch

  A new federal lawsuit backed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., founder and chairman of anti-vaccine advocacy group Children's Health Defense, is challenging New York’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for healthcare workers for not allowing a religious exemption, citing Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recent comments at a Brooklyn megachurch.

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  Oct 6, 2021

  Vatican diplomat warns US leaders against exploiting God at Red Mass

  As the U.S. Supreme Court began a new term in which it will be hearing an abortion case that could overrule Roe v. Wade, Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, warned U.S. leaders against exploiting God and justice for selfish means like the Pharisees in the Bible.

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  Oct 5, 2021

  ‘Indifference is killing us’: SBC Pres. Ed Litton tells pastors at racial reconciliation event

  President of the Southern Baptist Convention, Ed Litton, warned an audience that gathered for a racial reconciliation event at his Redemption Church in Mobile, Alabama, that “indifference is killing us” and in order to overcome racial prejudice, “we outta go and work at it.”

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  Oct 5, 2021

  Andrew Yang quits Democratic Party, warns ‘polarization is getting worse than ever’

  Former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang who also failed in his bid to become the next mayor of New York City this year, announced Monday that he has broken up with the Democratic Party to join America’s largest voting bloc of independents because politics has become too polarizing.

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  Oct 5, 2021

  Hillsong's Brian Houston denies concealing father’s alleged abuse of boy

  Hillsong Church’s founder and Global Senior Pastor Brian Houston denied allegations in court Tuesday that he concealed his late father’s sex abuse of a young boy during the 1970s shielding him from criminal prosecution.

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  Oct 4, 2021

  Christian teen brothers charged with attempted murder of mother, church ‘praying for all involved’

  A 16-year-old homeschooled Christian boy and his 13-year-old brother were arrested in Elverta, California, last Monday for attempting to murder their mother and 10-year-old brother, who have been hospitalized and are in critical condition, police say.

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  Oct 4, 2021

  Researchers claim biblical Sodom was destroyed by massive asteroid, scholars disagree

  The Tall el-Hammam, an archaeological site in Jordan also known as TeHEP, is the biblical Sodom referenced in the Genesis account of Sodom and Gomorrah, Steven Collins, chief archaeologist and co-director of the project, has claimed.

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  Oct 4, 2021

  Biden Justice Dept. calls Texas abortion law ‘scheme of vigilante justice’ in push to block it

  Calling it an "unprecedented scheme of vigilante justice," an attorney for the U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge on Friday to block Texas' controversial Senate Bill 8 law, which prohibits abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected.