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By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Republican Louisiana lawmakers trying to chisel away at Gov. John Bel Edwards' coronavirus restrictions Wednesday sought to protect a Baton Rouge area pastor charged with violating those rules and advanced legislation that would keep emergency orders from governing churches. The House criminal justice committee … [Read more...] about GOP Lawmakers Seek To Keep Louisiana Pastor From Prosecution

(Fox News) More than 30 U.S. senators have joined a lawsuit filed against coronavirus limits placed on a Washington, D.C., Baptist church by the city’s mayor, according to a report. Mayor Muriel Bowser – who gained national attention by ordering the words “Black Lives Matter” painted in the street outside an Episcopal church near the White House that was visited by President … [Read more...] about Lawsuit Against DC Mayor’s COVID Crackdown on Baptist Church Draws 34 Senators’ Backing

(The Roys Report) Chicago-area Republic Bank has stopped foreclosure proceedings against disgraced celebrity preacher, James MacDonald, and reinstated MacDonald’s mortgage on his $1.5 million Elgin estate. The dismissal filed today with the Kane County, Illinois, court comes less than a month after MacDonald settled his arbitration case with Harvest Bible Chapel and may have … [Read more...] about Bank Dismisses Foreclosure on James MacDonald’s Estate After Settlement With Harvest

by Alejandra Molina (RNS) A recent COVID-19 spike in Northern California’s Shasta County has been partly attributed to the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, a school operated by the Pentecostal megachurch Bethel in the city of Redding. Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency connected 123 cases to the school over the past two weeks, Tim Mapes, a Shasta County … [Read more...] about A Surge of Over 100 COVID-19 Cases Linked To Evangelical Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry

(ChurchLeaders) A disciplinary panel with the Episcopal Church (TEC) has determined that the Rt. Rev. William Love has violated canon law and his ordination vows by refusing to allow same-sex marriages to be performed in his diocese. Love learned of the panel’s decision on Friday, Oct. 2, and responded to it in a statement on Monday, Oct. 5. “I had very much hoped to share … [Read more...] about Bishop Found Guilty for Refusing to Allow Same-Sex Weddings in Diocese