Leonardo Blair

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  Feb 7, 2015

  Southern Christian Student Emerges as President of Growing Campus Ministry at Columbia After Culture Shock

  When 20-year-old Kalu J. Ogbureke first started the Ivy League's Columbia College in New York City three years ago, his conservative southern evangelical Christian sensibilities were left a little "shell-shocked." It wasn't that the city or the college was hostile to his faith. They were far from it.

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  Feb 5, 2015

  Campaign to Get James Robertson a Car to End Sunday After More Than $300K Raised; Worker Tells Donors 'You Guys Are the Heroes'

  After four days and an inspiring campaign to get a car for a Detroit man who walks 21 miles a day to get to work snowballed into more than $300,000 on Thursday, the campaign's organizer said it will end on Sunday.

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  Feb 5, 2015

  Megachurch Pastor Ed Young to Baptize Copies of 'Fifty Shades of Grey;' Calls Book a 'Perverted Attempt to Trap Readers'

  Just over a week before the steamy "Fifty Shades of Grey" movie opens on Valentine's weekend, controversial founding pastor of the popular Fellowship Church in Dallas, Texas, Ed Young, says he will baptize copies of the book on which the movie is based, calling it a "perverted attempt to trap readers."

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  Feb 5, 2015

  Pastor's Son Accused of Murdering Father, Mother and 5-Y-O Brother With Baseball Bat, Hammer, Lamp and Kitchen Knife

  After learning that their beloved pastor, his wife, and 5-year-old son were discovered murdered in their home Monday, a Houston community was sent reeling Wednesday when they heard that the pastor's 19-year-old son was charged with carrying out the brutal triple murders using a baseball bat, a hammer, a lamp and kitchen knife.

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  Feb 4, 2015

  Church Leader Suspected Hit-And-Run Bishop Heather Cook Was Drunk 2 Days Before Ordination and Warned National Leader

  Two days before she was ordinated as the first female Episcopal bishop in Maryland and three months before she was involved in a fatal hit-and-run incident, Bishop Heather Cook was suspected of being drunk at a private party by head of the Maryland diocese, Eugene Taylor Sutton, and he warned the Episcopal church's national leader, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, about it.

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  Feb 4, 2015

  Christian Bakers Who Refused to Make Cake for Lesbian Wedding Found Guilty of Discrimination; Will Have to Pay Up to $150K

  Christian owners of a bakery in Gresham, Oregon, who were forced to close their business in 2013 due to backlash over their refusal to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding based on religious objections, were found guilty of discrimination Monday and now have to pay the couple up to $150,000 in fines.

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  Feb 4, 2015

  At Least 19 Dead After TransAsia Plane Crashes in Taiwan River; Watch Shocking Footage

  At least 19 people are now dead and another 24 missing after a TransAsia Airways flight en route to the Taiwan-controlled Kinmen islands crashed into a river in Taipei, Taiwan after clipping a wing on a bridge moments after takeoff Wednesday.

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  Feb 3, 2015

  Donations to Help James Robertson, Man Who Walks 21 Miles a Day for Work, Tops $200K in 2 Days; Donors Want to Help Him Retire

  Donations to a gofundme campaign that started out as a simple gesture to help buy a car for James Robertson, 56, a Detroit man who's been walking 21 miles a day to get to work, topped more than $200,000 in just two days since it was established. And the fund is showing no signs of slowing down as some well-wishers push to help Robertson retire.

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  Feb 3, 2015

  Beloved Texas Pastor, Wife and 5-Y-O Son Found Murdered; No Signs of Forced Entry

  A community in Houston, Texas, was left in the throes of grief Monday after a beloved pastor, his wife, and 5-year-old son were discovered murdered in their home.

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  Feb 3, 2015

  TBN Execs Threatened Founder's Granddaughter With Gun, Fired Her for Refusing to Skim $100M of Charitable Assets, Lawsuit Claims

  Brittany Koper, a granddaughter of Paul Crouch Sr., founder of Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world's largest Christian network, alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday that top bosses in the organization threatened her life with a gun and fired her and her husband, Michael, after she refused to illegally funnel some $100 million of charitable assets to their personal accounts.