Leonardo Blair

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  Nov 20, 2013

  Christianity Is 'a Generation Away From Extinction" in Britain, Says Former Archbishop of Canterbury

  Unless the church makes a substantial breakthrough in attracting young people back to the faith, Christianity in Britain is just "a generation away from extinction," says former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey.

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  Nov 20, 2013

  Pastor Outraged After Costco Labels Bibles '$14.99 Fiction'

  A California pastor is now expressing outrage at a Costco in Simi Valley, Calif., after he stumbled upon a shelf in the store that had Bibles on display as "$14.99 Fiction" while shopping for a gift for his wife last Friday.

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  Nov 20, 2013

  Hip-Hop Loving Florida GOP Congressman Trey Radel Busted in Washington Cocaine Sting; Admits to Being an Alcoholic

  Hip-hop loving freshman GOP congressman from Florida Trey Radel, 37, who once boasted he would "kill it" in an old school rap battle with Republican Sen. Marco Rubio was busted buying cocaine during a federal investigation into a Washington, D.C., drug ring last month and has been charged with cocaine possession.

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  Nov 19, 2013

  Is the Pay That Bad? Cleveland Walmart Asks Associates to Donate Food to Needy Colleagues so They Can Have Thanksgiving Dinner

  Management at a Cleveland branch of Walmart, America's largest food chain, sparked a fierce debate over whether employee compensation is too low after a food drive was started at the branch to make sure the neediest of the store's workers had enough to eat for Thanksgiving.

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  Nov 19, 2013

  Off-Duty NYPD Officer Nearly Beaten to Death in Front of His Screaming Wife as Spectators Laugh and Record Incident

  Even after NYPD Sgt. Mohammed Deen, 40, appeared to have been knocked unconscious, his attacker kept pummeling his face with his fists, kicked him repeatedly and banged his head on the street outside a restaurant and bar in Queens, N.Y., as his wife watched and screamed helplessly in horror.

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  Nov 19, 2013

  Kentucky's Walter White: Pastor Accused of Being Drug Kingpin; Used Church as Den for Multi-Million Dollar, Multi-State Trafficking Ring

  Respected Kentucky pastor of Holiness Tabernacle Church in Olive Hill, Scott Gilliam, shocked neighbors in his community last Friday when police arrested and charged him with being a kingpin in what investigators have billed the largest pill trafficking ring in that state's history.

• Nov 18, 2013

  Couple Jailed After Deputy in Search of Loose Pig Finds 11-Year-Old Boy Cuffed to Porch With Dead Chicken Tied Around His Neck

  A nurse and child protective services worker from Union County, N.C., were jailed Saturday night under a combined bond of more than $1 million after their 11-year-old foster son was accidentally discovered cuffed to the porch of their house with a dead chicken tied around his neck.

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  Nov 18, 2013

  Martin Bashir Calls Sarah Palin 'America's Resident Dunce;' Suggests Someone Should Poop in Her Mouth for Comparing National Debt to Slavery

  In a scorching critique of a speech in which Sarah Palin compared the national debt to slavery, MSNBC host Martin Bashir suggested that perhaps someone should poop and urinate in the mouth of the former governor of Alaska and GOP vice presidential nominee.

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  Nov 18, 2013

  25-Year-Old Preacher Battling Brain Cancer Declares He Won't Lose Faith Over Affliction, Then Dies Full of Hope

  Georgia preacher Brandon Bennings was only 23 years old in 2011 when he discovered he had a deadly form of brain cancer. And with support from his friends, family and church, he refused to give up hope that God could heal him. Last Monday, he died still clinging to it.

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  Nov 16, 2013

  Pastor Who Committed Suicide Sunday Stopped Man From Taking Own Life Weeks Earlier; Rick Warren Sends Condolences as Hundreds Mourn at Funeral

  It didn't matter what his critics had said about him not going to heaven. As far as hundreds of mourners who turned up for the funeral of Pastor Teddy Parker Jr., 41, who killed himself last Sunday, he had gone home to be with the Lord and that's that.