Leonardo Blair

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  Jun 26, 2020

  Prayers go up, search underway after Amish teen goes missing while walking home from church

  Earnest prayers to God and a search are now underway for an 18-year-old Amish girl from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, five days after she went missing after attending church on Sunday.

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  Jun 25, 2020

  NY imposes quarantine, fines up to $10,000 for travelers from coronavirus hotspots

  New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced a joint incoming travel advisory Wednesday with New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut, imposing a two-week quarantine on anyone coming from states that are currently coronavirus hotspots.

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  Jun 25, 2020

  Miss. pastor says church booted him for supporting 'black lives matter'

  A white Mississippi pastor, who believes God has been calling him to multicultural ministry, says he was given the boot by The Heights Church in Columbus for supporting the idea that “black lives matter (as a human fact)” and standing with protesters against racial injustice.

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  Jun 25, 2020

  Controversial S. Korean church donating $83B worth of blood plasma as prices soar in pandemic

  Shincheonji Church of Jesus, which many view as a religious cult and was blamed for the propagation of the new coronavirus in South Korea, said 4,000 church members who fully recovered from the disease will donate coveted blood plasma with an estimated market value of up to $83 billion toward convalescent plasma therapy.

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  Jun 24, 2020

  Senator introduces bill that would give taxpayers $4,000 to take a vacation

  A new bill introduced by Republican Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona is seeking to give $4,000 each to taxpayers so they can take a vacation anywhere in the U.S. at least 50 miles from their primary residence to boost the tourism and hospitality industries that have been hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

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  Jun 24, 2020

  Texas couple married for 53 years die from coronavirus while holding hands

  A beloved couple who died 50 minutes apart while holding hands at a hospital in Fort Worth are among the more than 2,200 coronavirus-related fatalities in Texas as the state has reported a surge in infections that has brought the total to at least 125,000 cases statewide Wednesday.

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  Jun 24, 2020

  Company says air system doesn’t kill COVID-19 after church that held Trump rally claimed it does

  CleanAir EXP, the company behind a commercial air purification system that was touted as a COVID-19 killer by leaders of Dream City Church in Arizona where President Donald Trump held a packed rally on Tuesday, said their system does not kill the deadly virus.

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  Jun 23, 2020

  Pastor vying to be Georgia’s first black US senator sees opportunity for people of faith in unrest

  He believes the U.S. Senate could benefit from having a pastor in its midst right now and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, who is vying to become Georgia’s first black member in the upper chamber of Congress, believes he should be the one.

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  Jun 22, 2020

  Kenneth Copeland praises ‘Niger’ Simeon of Bible, pushes for Juneteenth to be holiday

  Texas-based televangelist Kenneth Copeland had high praise for Simeon, a black leader in the Church of Antioch in the Bible, as he called on President Donald Trump and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to come together and make Juneteenth a national holiday.

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  Jun 22, 2020

  Black megachurch pastor denies he agreed to participate in Republican National Convention

  Bishop Vaughn McLaughin, founder and senior pastor of the Potter's House International Ministries who was the only religious leader announced as part Jacksonville, Florida’s 32-member host committee for the Republican National Convention, said he did not agree to be a part of the team.