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• Envelopes Filled with Money Found inside a Wall at Lakewood Church Could Be Linked to 2014 Theft of $600,000, Police Say Law enforcement officials in Houston, Texas, are suggesting that hundreds of envelopes filled with money recently uncovered by a plumber at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church are possibly connected to a theft case from 2014. Dec 06, 2021

  

  Envelopes Filled with Money Found inside a Wall at Lakewood Church Could Be Linked to 2014 Theft of $600,000, Police Say
• Threatening Letters Terrorize Christians in Northwest Nigeria According to sources, Christians in northwest Nigeria are living in terror after receiving letters threatening death unless they close their churches. Dec 03, 2021

  

  Threatening Letters Terrorize Christians in Northwest Nigeria
• New York AG Files Complaint against Pastor for Allegedly Unlawfully Selling Historic Church New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a complaint against a New York pastor who allegedly sold a historic Harlem-based church and its property to an inexperienced developer and profited on the deal. Nov 30, 2021

  

  New York AG Files Complaint against Pastor for Allegedly Unlawfully Selling Historic Church
• Pastor Who Approved of Marital Rape Removed from Seventh-Day Adventist Church The Seventh-day Adventist Church has removed a New York City pastor who said in a sermon earlier this month that husbands may rape their wives. Nov 29, 2021

  Pastor Who Approved of Marital Rape Removed from Seventh-Day Adventist Church
• Pastor Who Called on Husbands to Rape Their Wives Is Placed on Leave The pastor of a New York City Seventh-day Adventist church who said in a sermon earlier this month that husbands may rape their wives has been placed on administrative leave. Nov 24, 2021

  Pastor Who Called on Husbands to Rape Their Wives Is Placed on Leave
• Why I Am Still a Part of the Church (for Now) It's no secret that the evangelical church is in the middle of a reckoning when it comes to the membership of younger generations. I have personally left a church that I felt to be spiritually abusive. And while I... Nov 23, 2021

  Why I Am Still a Part of the Church (for Now)
• Baltimore Man Vows to Stand Guard Outside Church after 69-Year-Old Woman Is Killed After a 69-year-old woman was found stabbed to death inside her church last week, a Baltimore man has vowed to stand guard outside the church every day to make sure it does not happen again. Nov 23, 2021

  Baltimore Man Vows to Stand Guard Outside Church after 69-Year-Old Woman Is Killed
• Church Employee Who Stole $450,000 from Congregation Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison A former employee of a Texas church was sentenced this month to five and a half years in prison and ordered to repay her employer after she was convicted of embezzling $450,000 to pay for personal expenses. Nov 22, 2021

  Church Employee Who Stole $450,000 from Congregation Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison
• LGBTQ+ Organization Holds Gay History Month Drag Show at Georgia Methodist Church A local gay pride organization recently hosted a drag show at a Methodist church affiliated with the Atlanta-based Emory University, which has long supported the LGBTQ community. Nov 19, 2021

  LGBTQ+ Organization Holds Gay History Month Drag Show at Georgia Methodist Church
• 69-Year-Old Woman Is Found Murdered inside Baltimore Church A 69-year-old woman was found stabbed to death inside the Maryland church her family had worshiped at for generations. Nov 18, 2021

  69-Year-Old Woman Is Found Murdered inside Baltimore Church