Leonardo Blair

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  May 17, 2021

  Atlanta megachurch pastor Olu Brown announces retirement at 43

  More than 14 years after launching Impact Church in Atlanta, Georgia, with just 25 volunteers, Olu Brown announced Sunday that he plans to retire as lead pastor of one of the United Methodist Church’s fastest-growing congregations in June 2022.

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  May 17, 2021

  Warnock supports Israel’s right to ‘defend its innocent citizens’ as Gaza casualties mount

  Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., who also pastors the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, said Israel has a right to “defend its innocent citizens” amid escalating violence with Hamas in the Gaza Strip that has already left scores of victims, including women and children dead.

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  May 14, 2021

  Megachurch Pastor Andy Stanley wants 500 bicycles for his birthday

  Megachurch Pastor Andy Stanley’s birthday is on Sunday, and he’s hoping his supporters will gift him 500 bicycles for a good cause.

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  May 14, 2021

  Church director, seminary student set to wed in November arrested for child pornography

  Andrew Shiira, once the director of worship planning at Lake Shore Church was getting ready to graduate from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary on Saturday. A few months later in November, he was then expected to move on to wedded bliss with his fiancée, but his life was upended Thursday when he was arrested on 10 counts of child pornography.

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  May 14, 2021

  Rock legend Alice Cooper reveals he's a devout Christian who prays, reads Bible daily

  Rock legend Alice Cooper who has drawn inspiration from horror films and vaudeville to shock his millions of fans around the world, is really a devout Christian who reads the Bible and pray daily to stay sober.

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  May 13, 2021

  Survivor wants Atlanta spa shooter charged with killing 8 to be ‘ultimately judged' by God

  Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz, the only person to survive being shot by former Southern Baptist youth leader Robert Aaron Long, 22, during a March shooting spree that left eight people dead at three massage parlors in Georgia says he wants him to be “ultimately judged" by God as a local prosecutor announced she plans to seek the death penalty for his crimes.

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  May 13, 2021

  Senior pastor, football coach arrested for relationship with 17-y-o student

  Miami-Dade County Public Schools confirmed Thursday that they have fired Edward Williams Sr., a popular football coach and leader of the Jesus People Full of Faith Ministries after he was arrested for being involved in an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old student at Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School in Florida.

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  May 12, 2021

  Man stabs wife in ‘brutal attack’ in argument over attending church on Mother’s Day

  A Texas mother was repeatedly stabbed in a “brutal attack” by her husband during an argument over attending church on Mother’s Day and he is now on the lam police say.

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  May 12, 2021

  Woman killed after attending church without husband for first time in 36 years

  An Illinois husband is now grieving after his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident after she attended church without him for the first time in 36 years on Mother’s Day.

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  May 12, 2021

  10-y-o Christian refugee is now America’s newest chess master

  Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a once-homeless Christian refugee in New York City who fled persecution with his family from Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, is now America’s newest national chess master at the age of 10. And he and his family are thanking God for the achievement.