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  May 12, 2015

  God's Judgment Is Coming to America and 'It's Going to Be Ugly,' Says Billy Graham's Daughter Anne Graham Lotz

  In the delivery of a warning from God she says almost made the hair stand up on the back of her neck when she got it, Billy Graham's Daughter, Anne Graham Lotz, said God's judgement is coming to America and "it's going to be ugly."

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  May 12, 2015

  Senate Unanimously Passes Resolution Calling on Obama Admin to Use 'All Diplomatic Tools' to Free Pastor Abedini, Americans in Iran

  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said Monday that the "supposed crime" of U.S. Pastor Saeed Abedini who has been imprisoned in Iran for more than two and a half years was "attempting to build and operate an orphanage," and urged the Obama administration to secure his release before a deal is reached on Iran's nuclear program.

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  May 11, 2015

  Akron Pastor Melford J. Elliott Dies in Sunday Morning Crash; Struck by Another Vehicle After He's Ejected From Car

  An Akron, Ohio-based preacher who joined with other pastors to protest attacks on the Christian faith last March, was killed in a violent car crash Sunday morning after he was ejected from his own vehicle then struck by another on Interstate 71 in Madison County.

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  May 8, 2015

  Prominent Christian Leaders Including Mike Huckabee Threaten 'Civil Disobedience' If Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage

  Several prominent Christian leaders including recently declared 2016 GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, pastor John Hagee and Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse, say if the U.S. Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage next month they have no plans to honor that law.

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  May 8, 2015

  Ex-Pastor of Rock Church Allegedly Paid for Parishioner to Get Abortion, Gave Some STDs

  Already facing eight felony counts of sexual assault of two young girls in Texas, disgraced ex-pastor and founder of the Richmond Outreach Center megachurch in Richmond, Virginia, Geronimo "Pastor G" Aguilar, is alleged to have engaged in much more abuse of his young parishioners than previously reported, including paying for abortions and passing on a sexually transmitted disease.

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  May 7, 2015

  Seventh-Day Adventist Church Warns Members Against Showing Institutional Favor for Ben Carson After Neurosurgeon Declares Presidential Bid

  In an unexpected move Monday, the Seventh-day Adventist Church's North American Division warned its general members and leaders against showing any kind of institutional favor to Ben Carson after the retired neurosurgeon declared that he will be seeking the Republican Party's nomination for the 2016 presidential race.

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  May 6, 2015

  Tony Evans Says Black Families Were 'a Lot Stronger, a Lot More Unified and Made a Lot More Progress' During Slavery

  Tony Evans, the first African American to earn a doctorate in Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, chided black Americans recently for not taking responsibility for the breakdown of their families, declaring that "the white man is not making you do that." He also charged that black families were a lot stronger and made more progress during slavery.

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  May 5, 2015

  Dallas Theological Seminary Says Its President Apologizes for Racism 'Every Year' After Complaint From Black Graduate

  Dallas Theological Seminary, one of the top 20 seminaries in the U.S., revealed Tuesday that the school's president, Mark L. Bailey, apologizes for racism "every year" after graduate Jimmy King, who now serves as senior pastor of Proclamation Church in Orlando, revealed that he was once told "we've never placed a black graduate to a white church" when he tried getting help from the school in finding a job.

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  May 5, 2015

  Rick Santorum on Bruce Jenner: 'If He Says He's a Woman, He's a Woman'

  Conservative culture warrior and possible 2016 Republican candidate for president, Rick Santorum, surprisingly agreed with a controversial confession made by American sports-icon-turned-reality-star Bruce Jenner last month that he is "a woman."

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  May 5, 2015

  Dallas Theological Seminary Graduate Says School Told Him: 'We've Never Placed a Black Graduate to a White Church' (Watch)

  Jimmy King, a Dallas Theological Seminary graduate who now serves as senior pastor of Proclamation Church in Orlando, Florida, accused the school said to be one of the top 20 seminaries in the U.S. of not providing him and other black graduates with enough support in finding employment, and further asserted that he was once told, "we've never placed a black graduate to a white church."