Leonardo Blair

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  Aug 25, 2026

  Gang kills 47 in church attack, torches animals in Haiti

  At least 47 people were killed and 22 others injured when gang members attacked a church sheltering displaced people just outside Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, according to the United Nations.

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  Aug 25, 2026

  Most religious youth say media's portrayal of faith, spirituality is inaccurate: study

  While a majority of religious youth admit to consuming religious content online and using it to explore their faith, most still list local faith leaders and their parents as the sources they trust most to handle questions about spirituality, according to a new study published by the Center for Scholars & Storytellers at UCLA

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  Aug 24, 2026

  1 fatally shot at historic church camp meeting in NC

  One person was fatally shot at the historic annual 10-day Tucker’s Grove Camp Meeting in North Carolina early Sunday morning as one of the oldest continuously operating African American religious camp meetings in the South prepared to close with large-scale worship services and family feasts.

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  Aug 24, 2026

  Freed missionary pilot Kevin Rideout thanks praying Christians as he meets Trump at White House

  Freed missionary pilot Kevin Rideout and his wife Krista thanked praying Christians and President Donald Trump as they met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday after spending 10 months in captivity by abductors in Niger.

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  Aug 21, 2026

  Cindy Clemishire’s defamation case against Gateway Church dismissed

  The Dallas-based Fifth Court of Appeals has dismissed child-sex abuse survivor Cindy Clemishire’s defamation lawsuit against Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, after finding that proceeding with the case would violate the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine, which prohibits civil courts from getting involved with matters of doctrine or church governance.

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  Aug 20, 2026

  Student dies during missions training program at Spurgeon College

  Benjamin Speidel, an incoming student at Spurgeon College, the undergraduate school at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, died Saturday while hiking during an intensive missions training program. He was 20.

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  Aug 20, 2026

  Traveling pastor, wife convicted of child sex crimes

  Benjamin Garlick, a traveling pastor associated with the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist movement, will spend the rest of his life in prison after a jury in Rutherford County, Tennessee, convicted him and his wife, Shaantal Garlick, of child sex crimes on Monday.

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  Aug 19, 2026

  Mark Driscoll discusses whether obese pastors should be disqualified from ministry

  Citing Titus 1 and 1 Timothy 3, Pastor Mark Driscoll, who leads Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, recently addressed whether obesity should disqualify pastors from ministry.

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  Aug 19, 2026

  Pastor Jamal Bryant to lead national prayer rally for Nolan Wells

  Megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant is set to lead a national prayer rally for Nolan Wells in Mississippi on Wednesday, more than a month after the beloved 18-year-old student-athlete was found dead near Horn Island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast last month.

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  Aug 18, 2026

  Pastor who believes men should ‘play big’ makes college football team at 47

  Justin Buzzard, the founder and lead pastor of Garden City Church who believes men should “play big” with their lives, put his message into action when he tried out for a spot on the San Jose City College football team and made the cut.