Leonardo Blair

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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.

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  Aug 18, 2026

  Netflix to explore death of pastor’s wife Mica Miller in new docuseries

  The controversial 2024 death of Mica Miller is now the subject of a three-part Netflix docuseries, as federal authorities accuse her widower, Pastor John-Paul Miller, of cyberstalking her until she took her life. Titled “Death of the Pastor’s Wife,” the series premieres Aug. 26.

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  Aug 17, 2026

  Trump to meet freed missionary pilot Kevin Rideout at White House

  Once he returns home, recently freed American missionary pilot Kevin Rideout and his wife, Krista, are expected to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House.

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  Aug 17, 2026

  Televangelist Brian Carn imprisoned after declaring he'd never go to jail

  Self-styled prophet and leader of Kingdom City Church, Brian Carn Jr., is now in prison despite declaring last month, “I’ll never spend a day in jail,” after pleading guilty in January to obstructing the IRS’ efforts to collect more than $600,000 in outstanding taxes.

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  Jul 31, 2026

  Family mourns Christian grandmother found shot dead outside church; son charged

  The family of Theresa Jones, a California grandmother who authorities say was shot dead by one of her sons while she was inside her car outside the Fullerton Police Department, is now mourning as they remember her as “a deeply devoted Christian woman whose faith guided everything she did.”

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  Jul 30, 2026

  Phoenix campus of Mexican megachurch building $1.13M 'clergy home'

  The Phoenix campus of Mexico’s largest Evangelical church, La Luz Del Mundo (The Light Of The World), is building a massive “clergy home” worth more than $1 million as its embattled global leader, Naason Joaquin Garcia, continues to lead the organization from prison while serving a 17-year sentence for sexually assaulting three minor girls from his flock.

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  Jul 29, 2026

  Woman charged with murder of sex offender searched ‘does God forgive murderers’: police

  A Connecticut woman charged with the March murder of a registered sex offender did an internet search for “Does God forgive murderers?” on the day police suspect she shot him, according to investigators.

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  Jul 29, 2026

  Former megachurch Pastor Tavner Smith fundraising for new church building after bankruptcy

  Four years after an adulterous affair with a staffer at his foreclosed Venue Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Pastor Tavner Smith is now raising money to move his growing young Georgia-based congregation, Hope House Church, into a new building.

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  Jul 28, 2026

  Greg Locke reveals congregation down to few hundred followers

  Tennessee Pastor Greg Locke, who is under federal investigation for allegedly misappropriating church funds, says his "tent" church, which drew up to 3,000 people in its heyday, is now down to a few hundred in the wake of his ongoing challenges.