Reading Time: 3 minutes Staccato Powell used his religious authority to take over churches and obtain millions of dollars in loans.
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A Georgia mayor’s first official act? Asking people to join him in communion
Reading Time: 2 minutes A few minutes after Mario Avery was sworn in as mayor of Fairburn, Georgia, he made it clear that Christianity would be the dominant religion in the city. He asked the city council members — as well as viewers tuning in to the meeting over Zoom — to join him in an act of communion. […]
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GOP lawmaker’s bill would make the “Holy Bible” Oklahoma’s official state book
Reading Time: 3 minutes State Rep. Tammy Townley says the Bible is an “integral part of numerous faiths.”
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Lawsuit: Taxpayer-funded adoption agency in TN won’t place kids with Jews
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Jewish couple that wanted to adopt a child says a Republican-backed Tennessee law permits this kind of bigotry.
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A pastor raped, impregnated, and married a child; the victim is now speaking out
Reading Time: 6 minutes Jason Greathouse, who shares custody of his victim’s daughter, faced no jail time.
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Supreme Court to decide case of WA coach fired over public prayers
Reading Time: 9 minutes The Supreme Court is eager to blow another giant hole in the wall of separation because of Joe Kennedy’s case.
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A widow left a $2 million estate to an alleged predator priest
Reading Time: 2 minutes A legal battle will decide whether Rev. David W. Bialkowski should be allowed to have control over all that money.
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Preacher Perry Stone may be under investigation for sexual misconduct
Reading Time: 7 minutes Right-wing pastor Perry Stone appears to be under investigation by the FBI over sexual misconduct allegations as well as his ties to local law enforcement officials in Cleveland, Tennessee. That’s the takeaway from a damning investigation from Wyatt Massey of the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Massey spoke with several people associated with Stone’s Voice of Evangelism ministry who say they’ve already been […]
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Ex-priest arrested for taking lewd pictures with unconscious victims
Reading Time: 2 minutes Stephen Sauer had been leading a non-profit agency for people with disabilities before he was arrested for unconscionable acts.
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Russian priest who adopted 70 kids convicted of sexual abuse of minors
Reading Time: 2 minutes You’ll never believe what happened when a conservative religious leader adopted 70 children. I’m just kidding. You know exactly how this plays out and you’re horrified without even reading another sentence. But I’ll tell you the horrific details anyway. Nikolai Stremsky was a rector at the Holy Trinity Convent of Mercy in Saraktash—part of the Urals in Russia. […]