Leonardo Blair

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  Oct 24, 2023

  Family grieves as pastor’s son is murdered ‘in cold blood’ by gang member, police say

  A Florida pastor’s son, whom local police called a “solid, good young man” with no criminal record, was found murdered “in cold blood” in the parking lot of his father’s church where he worked after a confrontation with a known gang member with 11 felony arrests and six misdemeanor arrests early Sunday morning.

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  Oct 24, 2023

  Greg Locke’s expansion plan stalled ahead of mass deliverance service for children on Halloween

  Pastor Greg Locke, leader of the Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, is facing another hurdle to the continued expansion of his church as he is set to host a massive deliverance service for children and burning of items related to witchcraft and the occult on his church’s campus Halloween night.

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  Oct 24, 2023

  Fake priests charging hundreds of dollars for sacraments, Diocese of Stockton warns

  A number of Spanish-speaking conmen posing as Catholic priests from Mexico, have been charging unsuspecting believers in Modesto, California, hundreds of dollars to celebrate sacraments, teach classes and issue certificates and the Diocese of Stockton is warning members of the community to call 911 should they encounter these "wolves in sheep's clothing."

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  Oct 23, 2023

  Liberty U rape survivors call on accreditors to place school on probation over alleged Clery Act violations

  Two rape survivors who rejected settlement offers from Liberty University after suing the Evangelical Christian institution for allegedly mishandling their sexual assault allegations are calling on the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to place the school on probation over alleged Clery Act violations.

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  Oct 21, 2023

  Southwestern Seminary calls Adam Greenway’s lawsuit threat, demand for $5M ‘absurd’

  Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary says former president Adam W. Greenway’s demand for $5 million, along with his threat to sue the seminary, is “absurd” as he claims a public disclosure by seminary officials of spending at the school under his watch “humiliated” him and “harmed his job prospects.”

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  Oct 20, 2023

  Youth coach says ‘I’m blessed’ after being shot 4 times by parent angry child isn’t starting

  A volunteer youth football coach who was shot four times in front of his recreational team of 9- and 10-year-olds in St. Louis, Missouri, by a parent angry that his son was not one of the starting players says he is "blessed" to have survived the attack.

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  Oct 20, 2023

  Pepperdine to grant degrees posthumously to 4 Christian students killed in crash

  Pepperdine University announced at a prayer service Thursday that four seniors at the Christian school who died in a grisly crash caused by an out-of-control driver along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California, on Tuesday night, will all be awarded their degrees posthumously at the end of the academic year.

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  Oct 19, 2023

  Joran van der Sloot claims he's now born-again Christian after confessing Natalie Holloway murder

  Eighteen years after the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalie Holloway during a senior high school class trip to Aruba, Joran van der Sloot, the man long suspected to be her killer, has confessed to murdering her after she rejected his sexual advances on a beach in the former Dutch colony but says he is now a born-again Christian.

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  Oct 19, 2023

  4 Pepperdine women dead after speeding driver crashes into Christian university students on California highway

  Members of the Pepperdine University community are expected to continue prayer vigils Thursday morning on the California campus of the Christian school after four female students were killed when a 22-year-old driver crashed his car into them along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu on Tuesday night.

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  Oct 19, 2023

  Denton Bible Church Pastor Tommy Nelson announces retirement plan

  Bestselling author and leader of Denton Bible Church in Texas, Pastor Tommy Nelson, says he is ready to transition away from the helm of his megachurch and turn it over to a team of younger leaders a year after confessing that the church failed to prevent the abuse of multiple young girls by a former youth pastor by not involving women when evaluating abuse allegations.