Leonardo Blair

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  Jul 22, 2022

  House of Prayer schools allegedly bilked over $7 million from veterans for Bible study classes

  A nonprofit organization called the House of Prayer, a chain of schools that students branded as a cult, has been accused of recruiting veterans and active service members and then bilking them out of more than $7 million in GI Bill benefits and disability checks to pay for Bible classes that were not accredited. 

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  Jul 20, 2022

  Pastor, youth advocate shot dead in driveway; 15-year-old charged with her murder

  A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder after Rev. Autura Eason-Williams, the pastor of Capleville United Methodist Church in Tennessee, was gunned down during what police believe was a carjacking in the driveway of her Whitehaven home on Monday evening. She was 52.

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  Jul 20, 2022

  Pastor John Gray praises God as he leaves hospital after health scare

  Relentless Church Pastor John Gray praised God, his wife, his congregation and others who prayed for his recovery after being released from a Georgia hospital Tuesday where he was treated for a life-threatening pulmonary embolism.

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  Jul 19, 2022

  TD Jakes says society breaking down because 'we are raising up women to be men’

  Megachurch Pastor T.D. Jakes suggested in a recent sermon that families are being lost in contemporary culture because “we are raising up women to be men” while subverting their femininity.

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  Jul 19, 2022

  John Gray experiencing 'miraculous' recovery after suffering life-threatening embolism: wife

  More than a week after he was hospitalized with a life-threatening pulmonary embolism, Relentless Church Pastor John Gray is now slowly on the mend, according to his wife, Aventer Gray, and she’s calling it a “miracle.”

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  Jul 19, 2022

  Stress reaches ‘all-time high’ among world’s workers as 60% detach emotionally: report

  Stress among the world’s workers reached an all-time high in 2021, with 60% reporting they felt emotionally detached from their jobs while many others reported not feeling hopeful about the future, according to the State of the Global Workplace: 2022 Report from global analytics and advice firm Gallup.

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  Jul 18, 2022

  JD Hall’s former church says he embezzled money, physically assaulted wife and son

  An elder with Fellowship Baptist Church in Sidney, Montana, said Friday that former pastor, Jordan Daniel "J.D." Hall, a polemics blogger known for criticizing Christian leaders, embezzled thousands from the church and was kicked out of his home for being physically abusive.

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  Jul 18, 2022

  Rick Warren’s Saddleback successor Andy Wood is ‘cleared’ of abuse allegations

  Just over a month after a preliminary investigation cleared Pastor Andy Wood of allegations of leadership abuse during his time at Echo.Church, elders at Saddleback Church say that Rick Warren’s named successor has been completely “cleared” by two separate investigations.

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  Jul 15, 2022

  ‘More than a pretty face:’ 7 reactions to the death of fmr. President Donald Trump’s ex-wife Ivana Trump

  Tributes praising her skills as a mother, businesswoman and socialite who was “more than a pretty face” followed the sudden death of former President Donald Trump’s first wife Ivana Trump at her home in New York City Thursday.

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  Jul 15, 2022

  As millions face global hunger crisis, World Vision seeks $2 billion for the food insecure

  Edgar Sandoval Sr., president and CEO of World Vision USA, says the COVID-19 pandemic, compounded by the war in Ukraine, climate shocks and inflation, has turned a once looming hunger crisis into a present danger for nearly 4 million people in Kenya, and millions of others around the globe.