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  Dec 23, 2021

  Staffers quit Venue Church after confronting pastor with allegations of affair, misconduct

  At least eight employees of Venue Church, a fast-growing congregation based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have reportedly quit their jobs over alleged misconduct by the lead pastor, Tavner Smith.

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  Dec 23, 2021

  After 8 months of marriage Christian Congressman Madison Cawthorn is getting a divorce

  Madison Cawthorn, a Republican congressman from North Carolina, announced Wednesday that he and his wife of eight months have mutually decided to get a divorce.

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  Dec 22, 2021

  Christian Rep. Madison Cawthorn calls higher education a ‘scam,’ urges conservatives to ‘drop out’

  Partially paralyzed Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, who attended a Christian college for one semester before dropping out, urged conservative youth on Tuesday to drop out of college if they aren’t studying medicine, law or engineering because higher education is “a scam.”

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  Dec 22, 2021

  21-year-old youth pastor, wife killed in car crash on way to church; baby survives

  A 2-month-old baby boy lost his parents Sunday morning when Hunter Wilkes, a 21-year-old youth pastor, and his 21-year-old wife, Alexis, were killed in a two-vehicle crash on their way to church in Texas.

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  Dec 21, 2021

  Preemptive Love Coalition challenges ‘misinformation and verifiable falsehoods’ in misconduct allegations

  The board of directors of Preemptive Love Coalition, a “faith-oriented” global nonprofit that works to prevent violence around the world, challenged what they called “misinformation and verifiable falsehoods” about its role in recently publicized allegations of misconduct by co-founders Jeremy and Jessica Courtney.

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  Dec 21, 2021

  Study suggests why religious marriages are less likely to end in divorce

  Religious marriages are slightly less likely to end in divorce because religion tends to motivate less cohabitation, a known risk factor for divorce, a new research brief from the Institute of Family Studies suggests. But it’s not the only reason.

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  Dec 21, 2021

  Missionaries staged daring escape from kidnappers in Haiti, CAM reveals

  The final 12 of the 17 Christian Aid Ministries missionaries who were kidnapped in Haiti on Oct. 16 executed a daring escape plan after they prayed, allowing them to gain freedom last Wednesday, the international charity has revealed.

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  Dec 20, 2021

  Trump tells Dallas megachurch: America 'needs a Savior right now' and 'it’s not me’

  Former President Donald Trump told thousands of parishioners and supporters during a Christmas message at the Pastor Robert Jeffress-led First Baptist Dallas in Texas that America “needs a Savior right now” but that Savior isn’t him.

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  Dec 18, 2021

  17 Missionaries leave Haiti after kidnapping, everyone doing ‘reasonably well’ CAM reveals

  The 17 missionaries who were kidnapped in Haiti are now all doing “reasonably well” and have left the troubled Caribbean nation where they spent each day of their captivity praying, singing and calling on their kidnappers to repent, said David Troyer, general director of the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries.

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  Dec 17, 2021

  Idaho sheriff who allegedly pulled gun on church youth group giving out thank-you notes is charged

  The Idaho Attorney General’s Office has charged Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland with aggravated battery, aggravated assault and exhibition of a deadly weapon after he allegedly pulled a gun on a church youth group handing out paper turkeys in his neighborhood last month.