Leonardo Blair

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  May 5, 2026

  New York Archdiocese proposes $800M settlement for child sex abuse survivors

  Following months of negotiations, the Archdiocese of New York has offered $800 million to settle legal claims from 1,300 people who allege they were sexually abused as minors by priests and other lay staff.

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  May 4, 2026

  'Prophet' Brian Carn gets 9 months in prison for tax evasion, court filing shows child support payments

  Brian Carn Jr., the founder and pastor of Kingdom City Church, was sentenced last Thursday to nine months in federal prison after pleading guilty to obstructing the IRS’ efforts to collect more than $600,000 in unpaid taxes.

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  May 4, 2026

  More Gen Z adults say life can be fulfilling without marriage, children: study

  Compared with previous generations, more of America’s youngest adults, popularly known as Generation Z, believe that you can have a fulfilling life without children and that marriage is not necessary to provide children with a stable home, new data shows. 

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  May 1, 2026

  FBI Boston recovers 17th-century reliquary urn stolen from Italian church

  A 17th-century reliquary urn, carved and gilded in wood and believed to be one of 17 ecclesiastical artifacts stolen from the Church of San Michele Arcangelo di Cangiano in Italy between Aug. 1, 2012, and Aug. 31, 2022, has been recovered by the FBI’s Boston Division.

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  May 1, 2026

  Louisiana pastor indicted for embezzling $343K from church says he worked without pay

  A Louisiana pastor indicted for embezzling more than $343,000 from one of two churches he pastors has denied the charge and claims he worked without pay for four years when he discovered the church was having financial problems.

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  May 1, 2026

  Father Augustine Tolton, America’s first black priest, is getting a shrine

  Father Augustine Tolton, America’s first publicly recognized black priest, is set to get his own shrine on the site of the shuttered St. Boniface Church in Quincy, Illinois, where he offered his first public mass.

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  May 1, 2026

  Are Mainline churches on the brink of extinction?

  Some two decades ago, former pastor-turned political scientist and researcher Ryan P. Burge, who was raised Southern Baptist, found a more comfortable home for his faith in an American Baptist Churches USA congregation.

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  Apr 30, 2026

  Fmr. Spokane mayor seeks $10M for damage caused by censure over prayer event

  Former Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward is seeking $10 million from the city for the “irreparable harm” she claims to have suffered since city leaders formally denounced her for attending a 2023 worship event hosted by conservative activist missionary Sean Feucht and receiving prayer from former state legislator-turned-pastor Matt Shea.

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  Apr 30, 2026

  Twitch streamer ‘Minister Zay’ hit by car during faith walk

  Isaiah Thomas, a popular Christian streamer known online as Minister Zay or hmblzayy, who embarked on a 3,000-mile “faith walk” from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to California last month to raise money for at-risk youth and build a trade school, had his walk stalled on Tuesday after he was struck by a car in Indiana.

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  Apr 29, 2026

  Victory Church leaders resign after youth pastor son admits plans to meet with minor in video

  Victory Church in East Palatka, Florida, is now looking for a new pastor after their recently installed senior pastor and his wife resigned following the release of a video showing their youth pastor son confessing to sending sexually explicit photos online to someone he thought was a teenage girl.