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  Dec 1, 2021

  Thousands call for Oxford High stadium to be renamed after hero student who tried to disarm shooter

  More than 66,000 people have backed an online petition calling for the Wildcat Stadium of Oxford High School in Michigan to be renamed after standout football player Tate Myre, who died along with three others after reportedly attempting to disarm the 15-year-old sophomore who went on a shooting rampage at the school Tuesday.

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  Dec 1, 2021

  Community turns to prayer after shooting rampage leaves 4 dead, 7 injured at Oxford High School

  Scores of students and adults in Oxford, Michigan, sought solace in three separate prayer meetings Tuesday night hours after a 15-year-old sophomore shattered the peace of their community when he went on a shooting rampage at Oxford High School killing four students and injuring seven others.

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  Dec 1, 2021

  Most Catholics, mainline Protestants say faith in God not required to enter Heaven: study

  The majority of Catholic and mainline Christians say that people who don’t believe in God can go to Heaven, according to a study from the Pew Research Center. The study was released three years after Pope Francis sparked a firestorm of religious debate by telling a young boy that his deceased atheist father might still end up in Heaven.

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  Nov 30, 2021

  Christian Rep. Lauren Boebert says insult of Rep. Ilhan Omar ‘isn’t about religion’

  Christian Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado defended herself as a “strong Christian woman” who never wants to “offend someone’s religion” Monday hours after a botched attempt to apologize to Democrat Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota for suggesting in a viral video that the hijab-wearing politician could be a suicide bomber.

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  Nov 30, 2021

  Human trafficking lawsuit claims Mennonite teens suffered mental and physical abuse on farm

  The Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church and associated entities have been accused in a federal lawsuit of exploiting Mennonite boys and young men through a program they claimed would reform “troubled boys” but caused them physical and mental harm instead.

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  Nov 29, 2021

  Pastor, marriage counselor resigns after preaching ‘the best person to rape is your wife’

  Burnett L. Robinson, a New York pastor and marriage counselor who has spent more than 35 years in ministry, apologized and resigned from his post at the Grand Concourse Seventh-day Adventist Church last Wednesday after he declared in a sermon that “the best person to rape is your wife.”

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  Nov 29, 2021

  Christian Aid Ministries continues work in Haiti despite abduction of missionaries by gang

  The staff of the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries has been praying day and night for the safe return of 15 of their 17 missionaries kidnapped by the notorious 400 Mawozo gang in Haiti while continuing to work through the crisis, the international organization said.

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  Nov 23, 2021

  Missionaries released in Haiti were 2 sick adults, no ransom was paid: report

  Two of the 17 missionaries recently released in Haiti were sick adults and no ransom was paid despite threats from the leader of the 400 Mawozo gang that volunteers of the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries would be killed if they did not receive $1 million each for their release, a new report suggests.

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  Nov 22, 2021

  Man vows to stand guard every day at Baltimore church after grandmother is murdered inside

  A 53-year-old Baltimore man who says he's dissatisfied with the mayor’s crime plan has vowed to stand guard outside the Southern Baptist Church where Evelyn Player, a 69-year-old church worker, was murdered last Tuesday, to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

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  Nov 20, 2021

  Megachurch pastor coerced girls, women to have sex with him under threat of ‘eternal damnation': DOJ

  Claiming that sex with him was a “privilege” and “God’s will,” controversial megachurch pastor and founder of the Philippines-based Kingdom of Jesus Christ Church, Apollo Quiboloy, and two of his top administrators have been charged with trafficking young women and girls in the U.S. who were coerced into having sex with him under threats of “eternal damnation.”