Leonardo Blair

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  Oct 14, 2021

  New York must allow religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccines, judge rules

  A federal judge on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction against New York's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers after a group of 17 Christian medical professionals, including doctors and nurses, protested in a lawsuit that the mandate violated their religious freedom by not allowing employers to consider religious exemptions.

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  Oct 12, 2021

  Church of the Highlands Pastor Dino Rizzo named in sexual harassment lawsuit

  Dino Rizzo, a member of the Church of the Highlands’ senior leadership team in Alabama, has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by a former intern at Vibrant Church in Columbus, Mississippi. 

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  Oct 12, 2021

  Citing ‘bullying’ from Biden admin., Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bans all COVID-19 vaccine mandates

  Citing ‘bullying,’ from the Biden administration causing many private companies to impose COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order Monday banning such mandates and has asked state legislators to codify the ban.

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  Oct 12, 2021

  Large toy retailers must have gender-neutral section or face fines under new California law

  Beginning Jan. 1, 2024, retailers in California who sell childcare items or toys and have 500 or more employees will face fines of up to $500 if they fail to “maintain a gender-neutral section or area” according to a new bill signed into law by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday.

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  Oct 11, 2021

  Lakewood Church says it never sought forgiveness for $4.4M PPP loan

  The Joel Osteen-led Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, which came under fire from the public last December for accepting $4.4 million from the  federal government’s coronavirus relief program for small businesses known as the Paycheck Protection Program, said it never sought forgiveness for “the temporary assistance received.”

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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.”