Leonardo Blair

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  Apr 23, 2025

  DOJ backs JD Greear-led megachurch’s religious discrimination lawsuit against county

  The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a statement of interest in support of a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by former Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear's The Summit Church in North Carolina, just over two weeks after lawyers for the Chatham County Board of Commissioners asked the court to dismiss it.

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  Apr 23, 2025

  First Baptist Orlando Pastor Bill Curl forgives wife’s killer sentenced to life in prison

  In an emotional session in the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida on Tuesday, First Baptist Orlando’s longtime Pastoral Care Minister, Bill Curl, forgave the man who fatally battered his wife during a home invasion earlier this year. The man pleaded guilty to the crime and was sentenced to life in prison.

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  Apr 23, 2025

  Atlanta Dream Center, Assemblies of God accused of trafficking young missionary hopefuls in lawsuit

  The Assemblies of God, along with the Atlanta Dream Center and multiple related organizations whose mission includes fighting human trafficking, have been accused in a federal lawsuit of trafficking hundreds of young adults seeking to become missionaries and pastors.

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  Apr 23, 2025

  NYC Mayor Eric Adams suggests God’s hand was in dismissal of corruption case

  New York City Mayor Eric Adams, whose criminal corruption case was dismissed with prejudice earlier this month, has suggested that God had a hand in the outcome of the legal action against him by the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York.

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  Apr 22, 2025

  Man accused of murdering pastor in road rage incident goes on trial

  Nearly three years after the Rev. Ronald K. Mouton was fatally shot in the chest after a 10-second argument with Uber driver Deshawn Longmire, the 25-year-old man is finally set to stand trial.

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  Apr 22, 2025

  Tom Keesee, son of Faith Life Church founders, indicted on 11 counts of rape, other sex crimes

  Following months of allegations of sexual abuse, Gary Thomas Keesee, a son of Gary and Drenda Keesee, founders and senior pastors of Faith Life Church in Ohio, was indicted by a grand jury on 27 counts of sex crimes, including 11 counts of rape.

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  Apr 21, 2025

  Pastor Jamal Bryant rejects Target offer to settle DEI dispute, declares ‘full boycott’

  Megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant said Target’s pledge to invest $2 billion into black-owned businesses by July 31 was not enough to settle a dispute over the retail giant’s decision to scale back its DEI initiatives.

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  Apr 21, 2025

  Rescued Tennessee missionary Josh Sullivan breaks silence with gratitude

  In his first public comments since he was rescued from his kidnappers after a deadly shootout in South Africa last Tuesday, Tennessee missionary Josh Sullivan expressed immense gratitude to God and the people who prayed for him. He is also looking forward to sharing his “miraculous story.”

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  Apr 18, 2025

  Target CEO meets with Al Sharpton as Pastor Jamal Bryant plans next phase of boycott

  Target CEO Brian Cornell met with civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton Thursday as megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant announced that nearly 200,000 people had signed up for a 40-day boycott of the retail giant over the company’s decision to scale back diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

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  Apr 17, 2025

  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rings alarm on rising autism, calls for examination of environmental factors

  A day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network survey showed a significant increase in the prevalence of autism, United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called for a look at environmental factors that could be causing the neurological disorder.