Leonardo Blair

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  Oct 17, 2023

  Liberty U threatened with $37.5M fine over alleged Clery Act violations, president says

  Liberty University President Dondi E. Costin says the private Evangelical institution has been threatened with an "unprecedented" $37.5 million fine by the U.S. Department of Education for alleged Clery Act violations following the publication of a leaked report accusing a former president of rape and other school officials of destroying evidence.

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  Oct 16, 2023

  Son of Texas megachurch pastor ordered to pay woman he gave herpes $2.45M

  Rev. Ralph West II, the son of the founder and senior pastor of The Church Without Walls in Houston, Texas, has been ordered to pay $2.45 million to a woman he knowingly infected with herpes.

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  Oct 13, 2023

  International Bible Way suspends pastor accused of raping family member 600 times

  International Bible Way Church of Jesus Christ, a South Carolina-based Christian denomination that claims some 600 churches globally, has suspended Bishop Robert Carter, the leader of their Gulf Coast Diocese who was charged with raping a family member at least 600 times beginning when she was 7. He is also alleged to have fathered a child with the victim.

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  Oct 12, 2023

  Police officer involved in death of deacon returning home from Bible study is fired

  Kiran Kimbrough, a police officer who used a stun gun that triggered the death of 62-year-old Johnny Hollman, who served as chairman of the deacon board at The Lively Stones of God Ministries Church in  Atlanta, Georgia, in August, has been fired as the minister’s family and supporters continue to demand his prosecution.

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  Oct 11, 2023

  Father, 3 sons imprisoned for selling toxic ‘Miracle Mineral Solution’ through fake church

  Just over two months after they were found guilty of using a fake online church to dupe consumers into purchasing more than $1 million worth of a "Miracle Mineral Solution" that turned out to be nothing more than industrial bleach to cure ailments such as COVID-19, a Florida man and three sons have been sentenced to multiple years in prison.

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  Oct 11, 2023

  Gunman who shot pastor told ministers not to pray for him as he died: eyewitness

  As South African police continue to investigate the fatal shooting of 22-year-old rising star preacher, Dwayne Gordon, inside the Eagle Christian Center in Newlands on Friday, an eyewitness to his murder says the gunman who fired the bullet that struck the young preacher in the neck, ordered ministers at the church not to pray for him as he bled to death.

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  Oct 10, 2023

  Pastor, father of 5 suffers fatal heart attack during St. Jude Ironman triathlon

  A Tennessee pastor and father five died Saturday after suffering a heart attack during the third annual St. Jude IRONMAN 70.3 Memphis triathlon meant for “courageous people who aren't afraid to push their limits.”

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  Oct 9, 2023

  Pastor arrested for allegedly raping family member at least 600 times since age 7, getting her pregnant

  Bishop Robert L. Carter, a husband, father of four and high-ranking leader in the International Bible Way Church of Jesus Christ, Inc., USA., has been arrested after allegedly raping a family member at least 600 times since she was 7, getting her pregnant as a teenager and forcing her to give up their baby.

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  Oct 9, 2023

  Texas pastor stuck in Israel as war erupts and US airlines cancel flights

  The Rev. George Mason, the former senior pastor of the Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, who had gone to Israel to observe peacebuilding work between Israelis and Palestinians, is now stuck in the country as war erupted Saturday after Hamas, a Sunni Islamist terrorist organization, launched an attack against Israel that has killed at least 900 Israelis and left has 687 Palestinians dead in retaliatory airstrikes.

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  Oct 9, 2023

  Preacher fatally shot during service; church says ‘faith remains unshaken’

  Leaders of the Eagle Christian Center in Newlands, South Africa, said the congregation’s “faith remains unshaken” after a young preacher popularly known as Prophet Dwayne Gordon, was shot dead and two others were wounded during a robbery at the church on Friday.