Leonardo Blair

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  Jul 17, 2020

  3 churches sue Calif. over singing ban, say it violates 1st and 14th Amendments

  Three California churches have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Gavin Newsom and several state health officials for a ban on singing during church services, arguing that it violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution.

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  Jul 17, 2020

  Houston pastor says his megachurch is among the 'safest places in America' from COVID-19

  If any one of their more than 10,000-members is going to get sick with the new coronavirus, Olus Holder, executive pastor of Fallbrook Church in Houston, Texas, says they won’t be getting it from attending his church.

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  Jul 16, 2020

  Megachurch Pastor Andy Stanley suspends in-person services until 2021

  Andy Stanley, leader of the multi-campus North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia, announced Tuesday that in-person services have been suspended until 2021 because he cannot guarantee the safety of members in the wake of increasing coronavirus infections.

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  Jul 15, 2020

  Doctor worried he'd lose pastor to COVID-19 says he prayed and things began to change

  As the new coronavirus was still ravaging victims at The Mount Sinai Hospital on April 19, Dr. Robin Varghese was worried there was nothing he could do to help then comatose Queens Pastor Benjamin Thomas recover from the virus.

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  Jul 14, 2020

  Pastor who loved being a dad is shot dead; 8-y-o son left fatherless

  Kelvin Wheeler Jr., a youth pastor and dean of students at Triumph Middle School in Harper Woods, Michigan, believed being a father to his 8-year-old son was “dope.” Now, the 34-year-old preacher’s son will have to grow up without him after he was mysteriously shot dead last Wednesday.

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  Jul 14, 2020

  Calif. Gov. Newsom orders shutdown of churches, gyms and protests as COVID-19 surges

  As new coronavirus cases continue to surge, churches, protests, fitness centers and businesses in several industries in 30 California counties will have to shut down again unless they can operate outside or through pick-up services, the office of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday.

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  Jul 14, 2020

  Houston pastor dies of COVID-19, heart was 'too weak'

  Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church, a liberal church in Houston, Texas, is now grieving one of its associate pastors who died from the new coronavirus Friday because her heart was “just too weak” to fight the disease.

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  Jul 13, 2020

  Menlo Church launches new probe after dismissed children's volunteer revealed as pastor's son

  Elders at Menlo Church in Menlo Park, California, have launched a “supplemental independent investigation” into concerns raised about the circumstances under which a volunteer, revealed as the pastor’s son, was allowed to work with children despite confessing to having an attraction to minors.

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  Jul 10, 2020

  Father and sons charged for marketing toxic bleach as COVID-19 cure through 'church'

  Mark Grenon, leader of the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, is now on the run after federal prosecutors in Miami charged him and three of his sons for allegedly marketing a toxic bleach as a cure for COVID-19.

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  Jul 10, 2020

  Church mourns as beloved minister dies at 46 after 2-month battle with coronavirus

  The congregation at Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, mourned on Wednesday the loss of one of their beloved ministers, who died at the age of 46 after a two month battle with the coronavirus.