Leonardo Blair

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  Jul 15, 2021

  Pastor is key suspect in assassination of Haitian president, but many say he’s innocent

  Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a 62-year-old Haitian-born American pastor and medical doctor who has lived in the U.S. since the late 1970s, has been named by local authorities as one of the key suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. However, the pastor, along with many who know him, says he is innocent.

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  Jul 15, 2021

  Promise Keepers almost convinced Bill Clinton to apologize for slavery, says AR Bernard

  In a presidential radio address on Oct. 4, 1997, then-President Bill Clinton praised Christian men’s ministry Promise Keepers for helping men lead their families responsibly. Not so well-known, according to one of the organization’s board members and leader of New York City's 40,000-member Christian Cultural Center, the Rev. A.R. Bernard, is that the group also tried pushing Clinton to do something that has yet to be done by any president or Congress in history — apologize for slavery.

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  Jul 14, 2021

  American missionary thought ‘the worst things’ after Haitian president’s assassination

  Paul Ruiz never feared for his safety during mission trips to Haiti until the day the politically tumultuous Caribbean nation’s late President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated.

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  Jul 13, 2021

  New Mexico church clears nearly $1.4M in medical debt for 782 households

  Some 782 families in New Mexico and Arizona are now free from medical debt after a church in Santa Fe cleared their bills totaling nearly $1.4 million.

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  Jul 12, 2021

  Can a generation of boys be saved from becoming ‘unproductive narcissists?’

  America is in danger of raising a generation of boys who are “unproductive narcissists,” and Trail Life USA CEO Mark Hancock says his organization is prepared to step in and neutralize the threat.

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  Jul 12, 2021

  Pastor begs God for ‘mercy’ as COVID-19 sweeps megachurch: ‘Lord we didn’t want to be in the news’

  Pastor Bruce Wesley of the multi-campus Clear Creek Community Church in Texas, which recently made headlines as some 125 youth and adults got infected with what officials suspect is the COVID-19 Delta variant after attending a church-sponsored student ministry camp, publicly prayed for God’s “mercy” as his church was forced to shutter for a second week.

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  Jul 9, 2021

  Well before killing 26 at Texas church, Devin Kelley threatened Air Force mass shooting

  A federal court ruled Tuesday that the U.S. Air Force is 60% responsible for the worst mass shooting in Texas’ history because it failed to report the criminal history of former serviceman Devin Kelley who executed 26 people at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs before killing himself in 2017.

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  Jul 8, 2021

  4 suspects killed, 2 arrested in assassination of Haitian president as faithful and political react

  Four suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were killed during a gun battle with police and two others were arrested local authorities said Wednesday as the faithful and political continue to react to his death.

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  Jul 7, 2021

  Share of men with no close friends surges: study

  More Americans now have fewer close friends compared to three decades ago, but men have faced the brunt of that social shift, with five times as many now reporting they have no close friends at all, a recent study by the Survey Center on American Life shows.

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  Jul 7, 2021

  Haiti’s Pres. Jovenel Moïse assassinated months after bishops urged him to step down

  Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated Wednesday, and his wife was injured months after religious leaders called on him to step down as the country faces what some describe as a “descent into hell” amid rising political tensions and violence. He was 53.